Henry Oil Co. v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1948
1 federal appellate · 15 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant will not be heard to say that ap-pellee would have derived no benefit from a completion of its contract, for that is no concern of its. Letot v. Edens, 49 S. W. 109 ; Chapman v. Clements (Ky.) 56 S. W. 646 ; Gayton v. Day, 178 Fed. 249 , 101 C. C. A. 609 . Appellant received from appellee property of the value of $3,700, for which it undertook to do a specific thing, which it has failed to do. The least that can be expected of it is that it should return the consideration received.””
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.