Baron v. Lyman’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1981 · most notably Estate of Johnson v. Johnson (1969), Dreiling v. Home State Life Insurance (1973)
26 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 Alford v. Dennis · Beneke v. Bankers Mortgage Co. · Ireland v. Waymire · Cleaves v. Thompson · Willard v. Ostrander
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are allegations of the failure' to comply with conditions of the contract, but this is seldom, if ever, a ground for rescinding a contract, the remedy being an action for damages. (Citing cases.) . . . Equity will not set aside a contract ... on the grounds of failure of consideration, unless the failure is so great as to amount to fraud (9 C. J. 1174), which is not contended here.””
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.