Crews v. Cortez’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1951 · most notably Bost v. McCrea (1914), Lamar v. Hildreth (1919)
34 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rights of the parties are founded on the contract, and the wrong done is compensated for when, the injured party is allowed the full value which he would have produced, less the expense of which he has been relieved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Foster
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.