Hall v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Covington v. Robinson (1986), 2009 Ark. App. 437 - Roberts Contracting Co. v. Valentine-Wooten Road PubLic Facility Board (2009)
18 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 Huntington v. Attrill · Tayloe v. T. & S. Sandiford · Nilson v. Jonesboro · Bagley v. . Peddie · Leslie v. Bell
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.
“(A)n agreement in advance of breach will be enforced if the sum named is a reasonable forecast of just compensation for the injury, if the harm is difficult or incapable of accurate estimation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“will be regarded as a penalty if the sum agreed to exceeds the measure of a just compensation and the actual damages sustained are capable of proof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellee correctly says that when, as here, words are selected by the proponent of a contract, and the phraseology does not convey a clear meaning, uncertainties will be resolved against the one whose form was used if the language is reasonably susceptible of the particular construction.”
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.