Aday v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably Hunt v. Jones (1919), Nolan v. Moore (1950)
38 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 Phillips v. Thompson · Goodwin v. Lyon
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If the proof fails to establish the contract as alleged, or if any of the terms be left in doubt or uncertainty, then a specific performance cannot and ought not to be decreed, for it would then be uncertain whether the chancellor was enforcing the contract the parties had agreed upon, or whether he was making one for them, and decreeing its execution. The proof,. -therefore, must not leave the contract, or any of its terms in doubt. This is the result of all the well considered •cases on this subject. — See Story’s Eq. vol. 2, p. 69, § 764, and authorities cited; also Goodwyn v. Ligon, 4 Port. 297 , and the cases there refered to. “Applying this principle to the allegations of the bill, and to the proof, we fully agree with the chancellor, that the evidence does not establish the contract with sufficient certainty to warrant a decree for a specific performance. * * * ””
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.