Robinson v. Haynes’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1976
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Hennessey v. Woolworth · 9 E.H. Smith 555 - Edson v. . Parsons · Sharkey v. McDermott · Chapsky v. Wood · Anderson v. Anderson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether equity will decree the specific performance of a contract rests in judicial discretion and always depends upon the facts of the particular case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pasley v. De Weese
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.