Krikorian v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Winn v. Aleda Const. Co., Inc. (1984), E. I. duPont deNemours & Co. v. Universal Moulded Products Corp. (1950)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 Hamilton v. Rathbone · Lowrie v. Castle · Manss-Owens Co. v. H. S. Owens & Son · Parker v. Levin · Geoghegan Sons & Co. v. Arbuckle Bros.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All of these rules [of contract construction] are to be remembered, and the academic definition of words is often important, but more important still is the purpose of the covenant. Has that purpose been kept or broken?”
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.