Pennington v. Drews’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 579 So. 2d 1115 - Ouachita Nat. v. Gulf States Land & Dev. (1991), Peironnet v. Matador Resources Co. (2013)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 Heeb v. Codifer & Bonnabel, Inc. · Pennington v. Drews · Seeger v. Seeger · Stewart-Mcghee Const. Co. v. Caddo Parish School Board · Pennington v. Drews
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In other words, the penal clause, under our law, is synonymous with liquidated damages. This has been firmly established in the jurisprudence. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Art. 2117 A penal clause is a secondary obligation, entered into for the purpose of enforcing the performance of a primary obligation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cannot require enforcement of a contract where he is unwilling or unable to discharge his own undertaking.”
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.