Bailey v. Banister’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 683 · 1952
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably 148 Cal. App. 3d 312 - A-Mark Coin Co. v. General Mills, Inc. (1983), First American Kickapoo Operations, L.L.C. v. Multimedia Games, Inc. (2005)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 348
Relies on Johnson v. Stevenson · Union Car Advertising Co. v. Collier · Goldman v. Harford Road Building Ass'n · Meyer v. Washington Times Co. · Caigan v. Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Co.
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.
““Since the plaintiff was without an enforceable contract, the defendants did no more than what they had a legal right to do, that is, offer more money for the land. Even in cases where a breach of contract has been procured, there is no liability if the breach was caused by the exercise of an absolute right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to recover for the unlawful interference with the performance of a contract presupposes the existence of a valid enforceable contract.”
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.