Parrish v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2000 · most notably International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Hechler (1987), Stuart Circle Hospital Corp. v. Curry (1939)
36 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 Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co. v. Beckett · Banfield Et Ux. v. Addington Et Ux. · Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. Thompson · Jennings v. Pope, Etc. · Gitzhoffen v. Sisters of Holy Cross Hospital Ass'n
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right of action on the contract and the right to sue for the breach of the collateral duty are distinct, the only limitation on a suit for either or both being that the same party cannot be compensated twice over for the same wrong, once for the breach of contract and again for the tort. Flint & Walling Mfg. Co. v. Beckett, 167 Ind. 491 , 79 N.E. 503 , 12 L.R.A.,N.S., 924, text 933."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n action may arise for the breach of the contract, or for the positive tort committed by the violation of a duty arising out of the assumption of the contractual relation”
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.