Benedict v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1815
Citation profile
1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1937 · most notably Ulrey v. Keith (1908), Grigg v. Landis (1870)
1 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 18 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do not perceive, therefore, that in the more ancient cases there is no (any?) real ground for the opinion that the time stipulated for the performance of a contract is of no real moment in this court, and I am at a loss to conceive how such an extravagant proposition could ever have gained currency. It is certainly, and very justly, exploded in the modern decisions.” '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.