McCullough v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1970
14 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 Merrill v. Ithaca & Owego Rail Road
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such a case he is not restricted to a pro rata share of the contract- price. He may either sue upon the contract and claim damages for a breach of it, or he may, as in this case, waive the contract and sue for the reasonable value of his work.””
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.