Chase v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1984
6 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 McAleer v. Hill
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contractor was entitled to recover for the work performed at the: contract rate, and such profit, if any, as he would have made on the balance of the work had he been allowed to complete it. The respondent (contractor) is to be placed in the same condition that he would have been placed in, had he been permitted to proceed without interference. . . . "While it may be conceded that, under the instructions as corrected by the trial judge, the value of respondent’s labor already performed should be determined according to the contract price, in the proportion that the..same ás it then stood bears to the entire work which respondent undertook to perform under the original agreement, it was manifest error to give the jury to understand that they might also allow profits on the entire contract. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The contractor was entitled to recover for the work performed at the contract rate, and such profit, if any, as he would have made on the balance of the work had he been allowed to complete it. The respondent is to be placed in the same condition that he would have been placed in had he been permitted to proceed without interference.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gould v. McCormick““And it was only for profits, on the uncompleted portion of the work that he was entitled to recover in addition, and then only after a showing that he would have made such a profit.” (p. 635.)”
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.