Nussenbaum v. Chambers & Chambers Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably DoCanto v. Ametek, Inc. (1975), City of Lawrence v. Falzarano (1980)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 37 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 Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Bartley v. Phillips · Kinnear v. General Mills, Inc. · Nowel v. Equitable Trust Co. · Council v. Cohen
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts do not go out of their way to discover some illegal element in a contract or to impose hardship upon the parties beyond that which is necessary to uphold the policy of the law.”
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.