Baumer v. Franklin County Distilling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 384 · 1943
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 1986
14 federal appellate · 4 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Lessee of Perry v. Clarkson · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Eubanks & Russell · William S. Gray & Co. v. Western Borax Co. · Hollweg v. Schaefer Brokerage Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No specific provision that the appellee should remain in the distilling business was necessary to entitle appellant to rely upon the implied obligation inherent in appellee’s promise to supply the IC. Taylor brand during the three-year life of the contract. An agency contract, terminable at will, is not to be deduced from the terms of the contract itself, or by necessary implication from its setting. On the contrary, the contract expressly provided for performance by both parties of their several obligations throughout a course of three years’ time. It has long been established law that one, who, by his own action has rendered himself incapable of performing a contract, may not successfully plead impossibility of performance in defense of his breach.””
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.