Henry Shenk Co. v. Erie County’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Breinig v. Allegheny County (1938), Coatesville Contractors & Engineers, Inc. v. Borough of Ridley Park (1986)
15 federal appellate · 43 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 United States v. Smith · Merrill v. Ithaca & Owego Rail Road · Ryan v. Ray · Thompson v. St. Charles County · Sheehan v. Pittsburg
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[S]uch provisions have no reference to an affirmative or positive interference on the part of the owner [contractee] * * * apart from the contract, or ordinarily to a failure to act in some essential matter necessary to the prosecution of the work unless delay in performance is contemplated by the contract; these interferences or failures may cause damages in other ways than that contemplated by the provision against delays.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule that a party cannot recover damages from a defaulting defendant which could have been avoided by the exercise of reasonable care and effort is applicable to all types of contracts.”
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.