Leigh v. Rule’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Fortune v. National Cash Register Co. (1977), Lafayette Place Associates v. Boston Redevelopment Authority (1998)
3 federal appellate · 64 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 Weiner v. D. A. Schulte, Inc. · Lowe v. Harwood · Hapgood v. Shaw · Schilling v. Levin · Hunt v. Bassett
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne seeking to put the other party in default must show that he has offered to perform or has given notice of his readiness to do so ‘unless excused from performance... by the refusal of the other party to perform, or some conduct equivalent to a refusal.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. Pearless““But the law does not require a party to tender performance if the other party has shown that he cannot or will not perform.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. Houck
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.