Plumb v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Forthman v. Deters (1903), Railway Passenger & Freight Conductors' Mutual Aid & Benefit Ass'n v. Loomis (1892)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 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 Willetts v. . the Sun Mutual Ins. Co. · Murray v. Stanton · L'Amoreux v. . Gould · Hilton v. Southwick · Ullmann v. Kent
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in [any] of three ways: First, by . . . engaging within a reasonable time to perform the contract on his part; second, by beginning such performance in a way which would bind him to complete it; and, third, by actual performance”
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.