Mansur-Tebbetts Implement Co. v. Willet’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1940
16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition is not framed upon the theory that the plaintiff suffered actual damages; nor were any actual damages proven. The suit is brought upon section 4 of the contract, which the defendant admits he broke, and plaintiff must either win or lose upon the provisions contained therein. This section is as follows: ‘The purchaser agrees: Not to countermand this order, or any, part of it, or have shipment held beyond present season, except on payment to Mansur-Tebbetts "Carriage Mfg. Co., of twenty per cent, of the invoice price of said order, as liquidated damages; and in the event we countermand said order, or prevent shipment as per this contract, we agree to pay said Mansur-Tebbetts Carriage Mfg. Co., said per cent. as. liquidated damages. If shipment of this order is directed held beyond time specified in this contract, it may be so held or canceled at the option of said Mansur-Tebbetts Carriage Mfg. Co.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Every contract, by which the amount of damages to be paid, or other compensation to be made, for a breach of an obligation, is determined, in anticipation thereof, is to that extent void, except as expressly provided by the next section.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It would not be impracticable nor extremely difficult to fix the actual damages which plaintiff sustained by reason of defendant’s refusal to receive the goods; therefore, under the laws of Oklahoma, the parties could not stipulate as to any specific amount as liquidated damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.