Haffey v. . Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1976
5 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedViolett v. Rishell
Relationships
Relies on Haffey v. . Lynch · Worrall v. . Munn · State of Connecticut v.Jackson · 11 E.H. Smith 445 - Jarvis v. . Lynch · French v. Kennedy
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““might, under the circumstances of this case, have relieved the [vendor] from liability for such rent. The question, however, was to some extent one of discretion, and we cannot say as a matter of law that the courts below erred in refusing to grant the [vendor’s] claim [that vendee was not entitled to the rental value of the property during the period of delay] .’’At 818.”
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.