Lally v. Cantwell’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1921
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Miller v. Woolman-Todd Boot & Shoe Co. · 24 Mo. App. 124 - Koenigkraemer v. Missouri Glass Co. · 30 Mo. App. 524 - Lally v. Cantwell · Munter v. Bande
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The measure of damages is the contract price, although the master may recoup the damages by showing that the servant either earned, or by reasonable exertion might have earned, money in other employment during the contract period.” Seymour v. Oelrichs, 156 Cal. 782 , 802, 106 Pac. 88 , 97 ( 134 Am. St. Rep. 154 ).”
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.