Harmon v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Eaton v. Trautwein (1941), Johnston v. Benjamin (1927)
32 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ That appellee was able and willing and ready to convey the title as agreed on January 1, 1891, was a necessary allegation, because it was an essential fact. For, although his vendees were in default in failing to take the property, yet, to entitle him to recover damages, he must have owned the property, and have been in position to have complied with his contract according to its terms. This defect in the petition is one of form. After verdict and judgment, it affirmatively appearing by the record that appellee was able, ready, and willing to comply with his part of the agreement within the time fixed by the contract, the defect in the pleading was cured. Duncan v. Brown, 15 B. Mon. 196 ; Rountree v. Hendrick’s Admr., 1 B. Mon. 189 ; Hill v. Ragland, 114 Ky. 209 , 70 S. W. 634 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blake v. Clark
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.