W. R. Danforth & Co. v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1931 · most notably Kadish v. Young (1883), Oklahoma Vinegar Co. v. Carter & Ford (1902)
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While a contract is executory a party has the power to stop the performance on the other side, by an explicit direction to that effect by subjecting himself to such damages as will compensate the other party for being stopped in the performance on his part at that point or stage in the execution of the contract. The party thus forbidden cannot afterwards go on and thereby increase the damages of the other party.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.