Pulliam v. Schimpf’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Jones v. Lanier (1916), Elmore, Quillian & Co. v. Parrish Bros. (1911)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Glass v. Memphis & Charleston Railroad · Calhoun v. Hannan & Michael · Howard v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railroad · City of Eufaula v. Simmons · Erwin v. Erwin
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.
“In * * * Howard v. [East Tennessee, Va. & Ga.] Railroad Co., 91 Ala. 268, 8 South. 868, we laid down the principle that, when no breach of a contract could be assigned which could be compensated by any criterion of damages to be furnished by the contract itself, the contract is void for uncertainty.”
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.