Armstrong v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Treadway v. Western Cotton Oil & Ginning Co. (1932), Weatherford v. Adams (1926)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 Stewart v. Griffith ex rel. Ball · Wilcoxson v. Stitt · William Stewart v. Lewis a Griffith W · Maffet v. Oregon & Cal. Railroad · Jones v. Mississippi Farms Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the event that the second parties shall default in the payment of any sum of principal or interest at the times herein mentioned, and such default shall continue for a period of fifteen days after written notice thereof, then and in that event the second parties shall lose all rights under this contract and the first parties shall not be obligated either in law or equity to convey said premises to the second parties and the second parties shall forfeit to the first parties all moneys that shall have been paid on account of this contract as liquidated damages and as compensation for the use and occupation of said premises.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the event of failure to comply with the terms and all the conditions hereof by [the buyer], [the seller] shall be released from all obligations, either in law or equity, to convey said property or any part thereof, and the said [buyer] shall forfeit all right thereto, and this agreement shall be void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steinhoff v. Fisch
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.