Siler v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2010
16 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 Quillen v. Kelley · Alois v. Waldman · John Cowan, Inc. v. Meyer · Baltimore Bridge Co. v. United Railways & Electric Co. · Livingston v. Green Properties, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As long ago as the case of Geiger v. The Western Md. R.R. Co., 41 Md. 4,15 , our predecessors said: ‘ [W]here the parties have declared in clear and unambiguous terms that a certain sum shall be paid by way of compensation, upon a breach of the contract * * * the damages arising from the breach of which are uncertain, and incapable of being ascertained by any fixed pecuniary standard, and especially where the contract provides that the sum so claimed shall be paid as liquidated damages, the sum so fixed and agreed upon will be considered as compensation for damages resulting from the breach and not a penalty.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Traylor v. Grafton
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.