L. Albert & Son v. Armstrong Rubber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 182 · 1949
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Hidalgo Properties, Inc. v. Wachovia Mortgage Co. (1980), Bausch Lomb Incorporated v. Bressler (1992)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · United States v. Behan · Santoro v. Mack · Bernstein v. . Meech · Brown v. . Foster
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is often very hard to learn what the value of the performance would have been; and it is a common expedient, and a just one, in such situations to put the peril of the answer upon that party who by his wrong has made the issue relevant to the rights of the other. On principle therefore the proper solution would seem to be that the promisee may recover his outlay in preparation for the performance, subject to the privilege of the promisor to reduce it by as much as he can show that the promisee would have lost if the contract had been performed.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“knowingly put the plaintiff [receiving a reliance recovery] in a better position than he would have occupied had the contract been fully performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.