Davis v. Hastings’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2008
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Hurst v. Champion · G. L. Webster Co. v. Trinidad Bean & Elevator Co. · Sonken-Galambra Corp. v. Abels · Great Southwestern Life Ins. Co. v. Gibson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rescission or cancellation of a contract may be ordered where that which was undertaken to be performed in the future was so essential a part of the bargain that the failure of it must be considered as destroying or vitiating the entire consideration of the contract, or so indispensable a part of what the parties intended that the contract would not have been made with that condition omitted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ Where several written instruments, though not executed at. .the ,; same time, refer to the same subject-matter and on their face-, show that • same were executed to carry out the intent of the others, all should be construed as one contract.’ ””
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.