Rice v. Theimer’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1964
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Hahn v. Kelly · Johnson v. Beazley · Lyman v. Gedney · Holmes v. Holmes · Cox v. Boyce
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems that the test of the enforceability of such a contract is the ability of the party seeking its specific performance to secure the performance of the act (by the third party. When he can secure its performance and tenders a performance thereof, as here, the contract will be specifically enforced; otherwise not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardy v. Deskins
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.