Carroll v. Hassell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
June 1925
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wall v. St. Joseph Artesian Ice & Cold Storage Co. · 41 Mo. App. 426 - St. Louis Steam-Heating & Ventilating Co. v. Bissell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily time is not of the essence of a contract, and a failure to perform on the exact day agreed upon is not a breach. In order to make time of the essence of a contract, so that it must be performed within the time named, the contract must so provide, or there must be something connected with the purpose of the contract and the circumstances surrounding it which make it apparent that the parties intended that the contract must be performed at or within the time named.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. Levy Levy
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.