Smith v. City and County of San Francisco

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• listing the requirements for promissory es-toppel and stating that “[t]he party claiming estoppel must specifically plead all facts relied on to establish its elements”
• “Without a contractual relationship, [a plaintiff] cannot state a cause of action for breach of the implied covenant.”
• “The prerequisite for any action for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing is the existence of a contractual relationship between the parties, since the covenant is an implied term in the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).