Post v. . Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1980 · most notably 37 Cal. 2d 592 - Potter v. Pacific Coast Lumber Co. (1951), Taft v. Valley Oil Co., Inc. (1939)
7 federal appellate · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPost v. Thomas
Relationships
Relies on 2 E.H. Smith 326 - Nassoiy v. . Tomlinson · Jaffray v. . Davis · Simons v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor · Dekay v. . Bliss
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[B]ut a partial failure of the consideration of the release of the kind and character claimed would not defeat the release generally, but the remedy for such a breach of the contract would be in damages for its nonperformance.””
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.