HARRIS v. DAWSON’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2002
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Heights Land Co. v. Swengel's Estate · 166 Pa. Super. 57 - Kraft v. Michael Et Ux. · 163 Pa. Super. 352 - Tudesco Et Ux. v. Wilson · Laughlin v. Baltalden, Inc. · Unit Vending Corp. v. Tobin Enterprises, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) An Agreement, made in advance of breach, fixing the damages therefor, is not enforceable as a contract and does not affect the damages recoverable for breach, unless (a) the amount so fixed is a reasonable forecast of just compensation for the harm that is caused by the breach, and (b) the harm that is caused by the breach is incapable or very difficult of accurate estimation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the plaintiff’s suit for the difference between the contract price and the price realized on resale were to be treated as an action for damages rather than an enforcement of the contract, we would be compelled to treat the $100 limitation void as a penalty in view of its unreasonableness in the light of actual damages, (emphasis added) 9”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on account of the purchase price or as liquidated damages,”
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.