Jeffries v. Lesh’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2009
12 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 Merica v. Burget · Eastwood v. Buel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““that, where a contract contains several stipulations of various degrees of importance, the damages for the breach of some of which would be certain, and of others uncertain, and a large sum is expressed in the agreement as payable on the breach of any of the stipulations, such sum is to be regarded as a penalty, and not liquidated damages. Carpenter v. Lockhart (1849) 1 Ind. 434 ; Sutherland on Damages (4th Ed.) vol. 1, p. 294, 8 R.C.L. 571.””
2 later decisions 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.