Ralya v. E. C. Atkins & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 1982 · most notably Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Gossett (1909), Johnson v. Southern Pacific R.R. Co. (1908)
5 federal appellate · 38 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 Chicago v. Sheldon · Railroad Company v. Trimble · City of Indianapolis v. Kingsbury · City of Vincennes v. Citizens' Gas Light Co. · Reissner v. Oxley
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . It is not material whether there had been any breach of said contract by appellee or whether appellant had the right to rescind the same on that account, for when a party, even without right, claims to rescind a contract, if the other party agrees to the rescission, or does not object thereto and permits it to be rescinded, the rescission is by mutual consent. ... It is evident that when a contract is rescinded by mutual consent or otherwise, no action can be maintained for a breach thereof. . . .” (Our emphasis.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.