Downs v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1970
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 46 Cal. App. 665 - De Bairos v. Barlin · 71 Cal. App. 272 - Lombardi v. Sinanides · Reddish v. Smith · Producers Grocery Co. v. Blackwell Motor Co. · Kuehl v. Scott
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that one who seeks to enforce the terms of a contract against another or to recover damages for the breach of a contract by another must show that there has been no breach on his own part. This is on the theory that one who has himself breached a contract can not thereafter enforce the contract against the other party. Reddish v. Smith, 10 Wash. 178 , 38 Pac. 1003 , 45 Am. St. 781, and many cases following.””
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.