Haldeman v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Richey v. Brookshire Grocery Co. (1997), First Nat. Bank of Amarillo v. Rush (1919)
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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it clear that he [plaintiff] could not found a claim for damages upon the contract for the breach of it, after his agreement to rescind and actual rescission of it. By his voluntary rescission of the contract he waived any right he may have had to sue upon the contract. He could not maintain an action for damages for the breach of a contract, by which he chose not to abide, and which he elected to treat as no contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cantu v. Bage
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.