Brady v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Church of Christ Home for Aged, Inc. v. Nashville Trust Co. (1947), General Supply & Construction Co. v. Goelet (1925)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before a party to the contract can assume the right to rescind for the default of the other party, the default must be of such character as indicates an intent upon the part of the defaulter to abandon the contract." Brady v. Oliver, 125 Tenn. 614 , 147 S. W. 1139 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cianciolo v. Chapman“where the contractor fails to perform his work within the specified time he is liable in damages only for the delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A case can be conceived where a default of one day might defeat the whole purpose of the contract.”
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.