Seagraves v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.2d 679 · 1930
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1956
3 federal appellate · 2 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 E. B. Waples & Co. v. H. C. Overaker & Co. · Bowden v. Southern Rock Island Plow Co. · Alabama Grocery Co. v. Hammond · Gussman v. Byrd Cattle Co.
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.
““If, at the time of the breach by the buyer in an executory contract for the sale of goods, the subject of the contract is in deliverable condition according to the terms of the contract, and the seller is able cmd willing to fully perform on his part, he may store or retain the property for the buyer and sue him for the entire purchase price, or he may retain the property and recover the difference between the contract and the market price, or resell the property and recover the difference between the amount realized at the sale and the contract price and the expenses of the sale.” \”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mulherin v. Brown
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.