Force v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably Walker v. Phillips (1962), Peninsula Properties Co. v. County of Santa Cruz (1950)
34 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 Kohler v. Agassiz · Hathaway v. Davis · De Leonis v. Etchepare · Willett & Burr v. Alpert · Hale Bros. v. Milliken
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-recognized rule of law in this state that an attachment will lie upon a cause of action for damages for a breach of contract where the damages are readily ascertainable by reference to the contract and the basis of the computation of damages appears to be reasonable and definite.””
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.