Leeds v. . Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1931
5 state decisions
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The recitals in this instrument show, and with every precision, the contract into which the defendant proposed to enter. It was optional with the plaintiff’s firm to accept the proposition, and enter into the contract, or to refuse it. If they accepted the contract, they could only do so on the terms proposed by the defendant. If they did not comply with the terms so proposed, there was no contract made, and there was no meeting of minds between the parties. The contract proposed by the defendant was to guaranty the payment of a debt to be contracted by a third person upon certain terms. The compliance with those terms formed the only consideration of the defendant’s contract. The plaintiff’s firm did not comply with the terms, for they sold a part of the goods ordered upon a credit of four months, instead of six months.””
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.