Saul v. McIntyre’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1971
8 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 Trotter v. Lewis · Schultz v. Kaplan · King v. Kaiser · Saul v. McIntyre · Kvedera v. Mondravitzky
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.
““Specific enforcement will not be decreed unless the terms of the contract are so expressed that the court can determine with reasonable certainty what is the duty of each party and the conditions under which performance is due.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whalen v. Owens
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.