Taylor v. . Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2007 · most notably Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. (1886), Webb v. O'Brien (1923)
5 federal appellate · 63 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Loomis v. Marshall · Driggs v. Dwight · Giles v. O'Toole · Caswell v. Districh · Bradish v. Schenck
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To my mind tlie only rule which can be prescribed, and the only rule which will do justice to the parties, is that the plaintiff is entitled to the value of his contract. He was entitled to its performance. It is broken. He is deprived of his adventure. What was this opportunity, which the contract had apparently secured to him, worth? To reap the benefit of it, he must incur expense, submit to labor and appropriation of his stock. His damages are what he lost by being deprived of his chance of profit.””
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.