Crouch v. . Gutmann’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Jacob & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent (1921), Spence v. . Ham (1900)
5 federal appellate · 66 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. . Brady · Glacius v. . Black · Phillip v. . Gallant · Cary v. . the Massachusetts Paper Company, Ryder · Flaherty v. . Miner
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of substantial performance should not be extended beyond the purpose in view when the relaxation of the strict performance was adopted, which was founded upon equitable considerations in furtherance of justice, and made applicable to cases of honest intention of contractors to fairly perform their contracts, and who shall in the main have done so, with only slight defects or omissions inadvertently and unintentionally caused and ap7 pearing in the work.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andersen v. Petereit
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.