Hammaker v. Schleigh’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
6 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Beatty v. Trailmaster Products, Inc. (1993), Canaras v. Lift Truck Services, Inc. (1974)
6 district · 79 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 United States v. Spearin · Hollerbach v. United States · Christie v. United States · Kellogg Bridge Co. v. Hamilton · Faber v. . City of New York
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Where parties enter into a contract upon the common assumption that a particular and essential state of things exists with reference to a substantial subject-matter, the nonexistence of that state of things, through default of neither party, ends the liability and prevents the accrual of a duty dependent upon it. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Faria v. Southwick“declared forfeit to become liquidated damages by interpretation, it must clearly appear that the amount named was reasonable compensation in fact at the time when the contract was made”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.