May v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably Thompson v. St. Charles County (1910), Gordon v. Burris (1899)
3 federal appellate · 45 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 Jackson v. Hardin · Powell v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Spohn v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Hipsley v. Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad · Whitsett v. Ransom
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]nd the amount stipulated in the contract as the damages to be recovered is not 'disproportionate to the probable damage,' the courts will construe it to be liquidated damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaines v. Jones
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.