Smyth v. . Sturges’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1958 · most notably Saperstein v. Mechanics & Farmers Savings Bank (1920), Pennsylvania Steel Co. v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co. (1908)
28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The vendor, having two remedies,^one damages, and the other performance,—chose the former. This right, if any, to damages, he assigned to the plaintiff, and the plaintiff has' sued. In such an action the vendor must be held strictly to the very terms of his engagement, and show the performance of all the conditions on his part necessary to be performed to put the other party in default.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zorn v. McParland
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.