Ankeny v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
148 U.S. 345 · 1893
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2007 · most notably Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Riverside Mills (1911), Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States (2000)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Wisconsin Cent Co v. Price County · Schulenberg v. Harriman · St Paul Co v. Northern Pac R 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an invariably true proposition that whenever one of the parties to a special contract not under seal has, in an unqualified manner, refused to perform his side of the contract, or has disabled himself from performing it by his own act, the other party has thereupon a right to elect to rescind it, and may, on doing so, immediately sue on a quantum meruit, for anything he had done under it previously to the rescission.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Humbert v. Chopy
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.