Chamberlain v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1971
16 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 Thompson v. New South Coal Co. · Fulton v. Jansen · Johnson v. Puget Mill Co. · Forrester v. Flores · Townsend v. Fenton
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before there can be a recovery in damages for the breach of a contract, there must be an enforceable contract. Damages flow from the violation of legal rights, not for the violation of mere moral obligations, however strong they may appeal to the conscience.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In this state it is provided by statute that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hendry v. Bird
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.