Rice v. Schmid’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 9 Cal. 3d 731 - Garrett v. Coast & Southern Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1973), Better Food Markets, Inc. v. American District Telegraph Co. (1953)
66 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 United States v. Bethlehem Steel Co. · Wise v. United States · Dyer Bros. I. Wks. v. Central I. Wks. · United States v. Burton Coal Co. · 70 Cal. App. 204 - Hanlon Drydock & Shipbuilding Co. v. G. W. McNear, Inc.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In states like California, however, which have code sections governing the matter of liquidated damages the courts cannot disregard the plain provisions of the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The decisions in this state do not require proof that actual damages would be extremely difficult to estimate, but only require that the parties have intended to provide for damages rather than for a penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Barrels Price per barrel 2,000 “Ravalli” brand wheat flour at....... $7.10 2,750 “Gold Cross” brand wheat flour at.... 7.65 1,250 “Isis” brand wheat flour at.......... 7.15”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. Schmid
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.