Henry v. Hand’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1942
1 district · 9 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 Delavergne v. Norris · Welch v. Porter & Co. · Haas v. Dudley · Nichols v. Bucknam · Corbett v. Wrenn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the covenant is to do a particular thing in exoneration of the covenantee, or to indemnify him against liability, the right of action is complete as soon as there is a failure to perform, or the liability has been incurred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pearson v. Richards
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.