Allen v. Blyth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1992
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Duel v. Hollins · 108 Cal. App. 591 - Rovegno v. San Jose Knights of Columbus Hall Ass'n · Thompson-Spencer Co. v. Thompson · Saunders v. United States Marble Co. · Dignan v. Spurr
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party moving for a nonsuit or for a directed verdict should state the grounds relied upon with such particularity as to point out the defects in the plaintiff’s case, if any. Thompson-Spencer Co. v. Thompson, 61 Wash. 547 , 112 Pac. 655 ; Idaho Trust Co. v. Eastman, 43 Idaho 142 , 249 Pac. 890 ; Rovegno v. San Jose Knights of Columbus Hall Ass’n., 108 Cal. App. 591 , 291 Pac. 848 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fick v. Jones“the difference between the market value of the goods at the time when they should have been delivered and their value at the time they were actually delivered; and this rule is applicable to corporate stock. Sedgwick on Damages, Vol. 2 (9th ed.), §§ 735c, 736; Saunders v. United States Marble Co., 25 Wash. 475 , 65 Pac. 782 [(1901)]; Belden v. Krom, 34 Wash. 184 , 75 Pac. 636 [(1904)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`such as may fairly be supposed to have entered into the contemplation of the parties when they made the contract, or such as might, according to the ordinary course of things, be expected to follow its violation.'”
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.