Dugue v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Merrill v. Harang (1940), Cusachs v. Sewerage & Water Board (1906)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 61 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 Monarch & Kaiser v. Board of Commissioners · Villalobos v. Mooney · Joublanc v. Daunoy · Dufour v. Janin · Moore v. Howard
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proprietor, on the one hand, shall have the legal right to put an end to the contract, and the contractor, on the other hand, shall be placed in as good a position as he would have been if he had been permitted to complete the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While the evidence in the case is exceedingly voluminous on the character of plaintiff's work and materials, it is astonishingly scant on the question of the exact amount of the loss suffered by plaintiff from the action of defendant.”
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.