Fischer v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Gagne v. Vaccaro (2001), Lach v. Cahill (1951)
8 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Grant v. Grant · Dwight v. Cutler · Dix v. Marcy · Ensign v. Batterson · Malkan v. Hemming
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Both parties to the contract undoubtedly anticipated that a first mortgage would be secured from the Federal Land Bank. The executory contract had been made upon this assumption. When it failed to materialize either party had the right to treat the contract as at an end; neither could have enforced it against the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nikora v. Mayer“which is so broad as to include almost any case in which unfair dealing appears and so vague as to give no help in solving cases as they arise.”
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.