Nevins v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Fortune v. National Cash Register Co. (1977), Northern Heel Corp. v. Compo Industries, Inc. (1988)
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 20 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 Daniels v. Newton · Pearson v. Mulloney · Handy v. Bliss · Bowen v. Kimbell · Glazer v. Schwartz
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there are promises for an agreed exchange, if one promisor manifests to the other that he cannot or will not substantially perform his promise, or that, though able to do so, he doubts whether he will substantially perform it, and the statement is not conditional on the existence of facts that would justify a failure to perform, and there are no such facts, the other party is justified in changing his position, and if he makes a material change of position he is discharged from the duty of performing his promise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Brin
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.