Ward v. Haren’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably Roberts v. Security Trust & Savings Bank (1925), 59 Cal. 2d 241 - Peter Kiewit Sons' Co. v. Pasadena City Junior College District (1963)
39 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 Dermott v. Jones · William Van Buren v. William H Digges Use of Joseph Liebey · Davis v. La Crosse Hospital Ass'n · Feeney v. Bardsley · Dannat v. . Fuller
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a party, by his contract, charge himself with an obligation possible to be performed, he must make it good unless its performance is rendered impossible by an act of God, the law, or the other party. Unforeseen difficulties, however great, will not excuse him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Where the contract requires that the contractor shall give notice of delay' arising from stipulated causes, the contractor must give .such notice to entitle him to be excused for the delay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wait v. Stanton
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.