Thach v. Durham’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1971
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Hansbrough v. Peck · Clifton v. Willson · Neis v. O'Brien · Ellinghouse v. Hansen Packing Co. · Foss-Hughes Co. v. Norman
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule as laid down by the decisions seems to exist independent of any provision in the contract for forfeiture or liquidated damages. " (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Massey v. Love
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.