Goebel v. Linn’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1975 · most notably Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States (1926), Blakeslee v. Board of Water Commissioners (1927)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Hackley v. Headley · Moore v. Detroit Locomotive Works
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defense, therefore, is not that the consideration has failed, hut that a note for a sum greater than the contract price has been extorted under circumstances amounting to duress. It is to be observed of these circumstances that, if we confine our attention to the very time when the arrangement for an increased price was made, the defendants make out a very plausible case. They had then a very considerable stock of beer on hand, and the case they make is one in which they must have ice at any cost, or they must fail in business. If the ice company had the ability to perform their contract, but took advantage of the circumstances to extort a higher price from the necessities of the defendants, its conduct was reprehensible, and it would perhaps have been in the interest of good morals if defendants had temporarily submitted to the loss, and brought.suit against the ice company on their contract. No one disputes that, at their option, they might have taken that Course, and that the ice company would have been responsible for all damages legally attributable to the breach of its contract. But the defendants did not elect to take that course. They chose, for reasons Which they müst have deemed sufficient at. 'the time, to submit to the com pany’s demand, and pay the increased price, rather than rely upon. their strict rights under the existing contract. What these reasons were, is not explained to us except as above shown. It is obviops that there might be reasons that would ”
1 later decision 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.