Thomson v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 25 Cal. 2d 48 - Lloyd v. Murphy (1944), Green v. Ashland Sixty-Third State Bank (1931)
8 federal appellate · 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 Bearss v. Ford · Pacaud v. Waite · Saladin v. Mitchell · Illinois Central Railroad v. McClellan · Florida Ass'n v. Stevens
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who contracts cannot be relieved from the obligation of his contract which binds him to perform his agreement, and he cannot be deprived of the benefit of his lawful contract, and the rights which it confers upon him, without his consent, and in every case the question is what the contract was and what obligation it created. A party to a contract has no right to impose a condition not provided for in the contract itself. (Illinois Conference Female College vs. Cooper, 25 Ill. 148 .) Neither would it be any defense in such case that by reason of the declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917, and the unusual conditions resulting, and sure to result in the future, in abnormally high prices, which would have enabled purchasers to compel sellers to settle their contracts at extortionate prices, the Board of Trade, by resolution of the board of directors, provided that after July 5, 1917, settlement of the contract in question should be made in the manner in which they were made. Neither would1 it be any defense to a suit for damages resulting from a breach of such contract that a compliance with such contract would entail great hardship upon defendants, or that by reason of the exigencies of the World War the fulfillment of the contract would be rendered extremely difficult, or even impossible, where defendant has failed to limit in the contract his liability in respect to' such contingencies. Illinois Central Railroad vs. McClellan, 54 Ill. 58 ; Illinois Central Ra”
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.