Belding v. Whittington’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Roach v. Concord Boat Corp. (1994), Pitcairn v. American Refrigerator Transit Co. (1939)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Craig v. Meriwether · White v. Beal & Fletcher Grocer Co. · Otto v. Young · Whitney v. Inhabitants of Stow · Bush v. Barksdale
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is the doctrine of election of remedies that one having the choice of two or more inconsistent remedies for his relief is bound by his selection of the remedy he will pursue, and. he cannot thereafter avail himself of the other remedies . . . So, where the party brings an action at law for damages for the breach, he cannot thereafter maintain a suit in equity to enforce specific performance.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bigger v. Glass““We conclude therefore that the appellants are barred from maintaining this action for specific performance of the contract because they first elected to prosecute an action for damages for a breach thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bigger v. Glass
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.