Piaggio v. Somerville’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably City of Montpelier v. National Surety Co. (1923), Superior Oil Co. v. Beery (1953)
30 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 The Kronprinzessin Cecilie · Dexter v. . Norton · The Harriman · North German Lloyd v. Guaranty Trust Company · Randall v. Johnson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certain classes of events the occurring of which are said to excuse from performance because they are not within the contract, for the reason that it cannot reasonably be supposed that either party would have so intended had they contemplated their occurrence when the contract was entered into, so that the promisor cannot be said to have accepted specifically nor promised unconditionally in respect to them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“destruction, from no default of either party, of the specific thing, the continued existence of which is essential to the performance of the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule is that, when a party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to discharge it, although so to do should subsequently become unexpectedly burdensome or even impossible; the answer to the objection of hardship in all such cases being that it might have been guarded against by a proper stipulation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.