Perry v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2024
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Roehm v. Horst · Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · Lovell v. St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance · Central Trust Company of Illinois v. Chicago Auditorium Association No 162 Chicago Auditorium Association · Sullivan v. McMillan
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]irst, to rescind the contract altogether; second, to elect to treat the repudiation as a breach by bringing suit or by making some change in position 1 ; or, third, to await the time for performance of the contract and bring suit after that time has arrived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dutra v. Kaplan
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.