Harris v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
11 F. 118 · 1880
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1913
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 King v. . Talbot · Hawley v. . Keeler · Jones v. Gardner · Aiken v. Sanford · Horton v. Hicks
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the contract is explicit that the sum named shall be considered as liquidated damages, the contract is to be enforced according to its terms, unless qualified by some other circumstance; as, when one agrees to pay a larger sum upon the failure to pay a smaller one, or when the damages resulting from the failure to perform a contract are certain, or can be reasonably ascertained by a jury. But whenever the contract is for the doing or not doing of a particular act or acts, and there is no certain pecuniary standard by which to measure the damages resulting from a breach thereof, an agreement to pay a stipulated sum as damages for such breach will be enforced literally.””
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.