Hammond v. Buckmaster’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1976
4 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the charge of the court can be sustained, it must be upon the ground that a breach of the contract on the part of Ford gave to the defendant a right: to repudiate it. But it could not have that effect. The general rule of law is that a contract cannot be rescinded by one party for the default of the other, unless both parlies can be placed in statn quo, as before the contract. In the present case the contract had been in part executed, and each party had received a partial benefit from the contract, and the parties conld not be placed in statu quo. The agreement in this case must stand, and the defendant must perform liis part of it; and, if there has been a breach of the contract by (lie other party, he must sect a compensation in damages of such party by a cross action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.