Cox v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Cox v. McLaughlin (1881), Alderson v. Houston (1908)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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 Dillon v. . Anderson · Cox v. Western Pacific Railroad
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is doubtless true that a failure to pay the instalment due was a breach of the terms of the contract, and they were not bound to wait for the defendant to make the payment, and plaintiffs then had the right to abandon the contract, or they might have continued to perform the services, and have brought suit for the instalments due. Although the plaintiffs abandoned the contract on the very day of the defendant’s failure to pay them the instalments due, yet the defendant placed no obstacle in the way of their going on with the work, unless a failure to pay the instalment due can be so regarded. But there is nothing in the contract which makes a failure to pay an instalment due at a stated time a condition precedent to the further prosecution of the work, and which made its non-payment such a violation of the contract as to authorize the other party to abandon the work, and sue upon it as for having been prevented from completing it by the act of the party who had thus failed to perform such condition precedent; hence the law cannot infer Such a consequence from the ordinary obligation to pay money at a particular time or upon the completion of a specified part””
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.