Breeding v. Melson’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1973
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Stryker v. . Cassidy · Lamoreaux v. Andersch · United States Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co. v. Henry Vogt Machine Co. · The Martin Tire Rubber Co. v. the Kelly Tire Rubber · General Fire Extinguisher Co. v. Schwartz Bros. Commission
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It is quite true that very little material was supplied by the plaintiff, and that the value of the same was insignificant, but that fact cannot have any bearing on his status as a contractor, as the statute does not specify that any particular amount of labor or material shall be furnished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.