Wise v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 361 · 1919
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 17 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Priebe & Sons, Inc. v. United States (1947), Knutton v. Cofield (1968)
74 federal appellate · 17 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
reviewedWise v. United States
Relationships
Relies on Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore · United States v. Bethlehem Steel Co. · Crescent Milling Co. v. H. N. Strait Manufacturing Co. · William Van Buren v. William H Digges Use of Joseph Liebey
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no sound reason why persons competent and free to contract may not agree upon this subject as fully as upon any other, or why their agreement, when fairly and understandingly entered into with a view to just compensation for the anticipated loss, should not be enforced.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The subject of the interpretation of provisions for liquidated damages in contracts, as contradistinguished from such-as provide for penalties, was elaborately and comprehensively considered by this, court in Sun Printing & Publishing Association v. Moore, 183 U.S. 642 , 22 S.Ct.. 240 , 46 L.Ed. 366 , applied in United States, v. Bethlehem Steel Co., 205 U.S. 105 , 27 S.Ct. 450 , 51 L.Ed. 731 , and the result of the modern decisions was determined to be that in such cases courts will endeavor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is nothing in the contract or in the record to indicate that the parties did not take into consideration, when estimating the amount of damage which would be caused by delay, the prospect of one building being delayed and the other not, and the amount of the damages stipulated, having regard to the circumstances of the case, may well have been adopted with reference to the probability of such a result.”
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.