Schmidt v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Shreeve v. Greer (1946), Bennett v. Copeland (1951)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Cobb v. Willrett · Moore v. Machinery Sales Co. · Allen v. Hayes · Schmidt v. Barr · Cable v. Hoffman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contract must be enforced according to its terms or not at all. A court is without authority to compel a party to do something he did not contract to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowman v. Reyburn
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.