Dunklee v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1848
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1984
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Austin v. Austin · Adams v. Dunklee · Olcott v. Dunklee
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such a case the time for the performance of the service is of the very essence of the contract; it certainly can never be done afterwards. It is impossible to put the party in the precise situation he would have been in, if the condition had been performed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Waiver of the forfeiture would have been a good defence at law, and the judgment is to be taken as conclusive evidence that there had been none at the time it was rendered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.