Calbeck v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1931
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Jaquith v. Hudson · Spicer v. Hoop · Gobble v. Linder · Peine v. Weber · Stewart v. McLaughlin's Estate
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the principle is there established that courts will ‘disregard the express stipulation of parties, only in those cases whore it is obvious from the contract before them, and the whole subject-matter, that the principle of compensation lias been disrgarded.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““'This case has been, frequently referred to with approval, and is a clear and authoritative statement of the rule as expounded by this court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The violation or disregard of this principle of compensation may appear to tiio court in various ways — from the contract, the sum mentioned, and the subject-matter. Thus, where a large sum (say $1,000), is made payable solely in consequence of the nonpayment of a much smaller sum (say $100) at a certain day, or where the contract is for the performance of several stipulations of very different degrees of importance, and one large sum is made payable on the breach of any one of them, even the most trivial, the damages for which can, in no reasonable probability, amount to that sum, * * * yet as the contract exacts the same large sum for the breach of a trivial or comparatively unimportant stipulation as for that of the most important, or of all of them together, it is equally clear that the parties liave wholly departed from the idea of just compensation, and attempted to fix a rule of damages which the law will not recognize or enforce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.