Reddish v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1950 · most notably Ashford v. Reese (1925), Churchill v. Ackerman (1900)
1 federal appellate · 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on Phelps v. Illinois Central Railroad · Green v. Green · Drown v. Ingels
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true that the courts will not supply language to create a forfeiture where the forfeiture is not specially provided for by the parties themselves, yet it seems to us that it was the clear, unequivocal intention of the parties to this contract . . . that the payments made by the appellants should be forfeited in case the respondents elected so to do, upon the non-performance of the contract by the appellants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pease v. Baxter““ In case the party of the second part shall fail to pay promptly the monthly installments herein provided for, after a demand made on him for the same of thirty days, then the party of the first part may, at his option, declare this contract forfeited and he shall enter upon and repossess himself of the said premises, and thereupon this contract shall be at an end.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pease v. Baxter
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.