Lam v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2019
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 Barney v. Jolly Hoop Co. · J. Zinsmeister & Bro. v. Rock Island Canning Co. · Mitchell-Taylor Tie Co. v. Whitaker · Blish Milling Co. v. Detherage · Fairbanks, Morse & Co. v. Heltsley
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The general rule is, that when a buyer of specific personal property declines to accept and pay for the property purchased, the seller has a choice of three remedies: first, he may retain the property for the buyer, and sue him for the contract price . • . . ””
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.