Huff v. Speer’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Henshaw v. Texas Natural Resources Foundation · McDonald v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Co. · Lesikar Construction Company v. Acoustex, Inc. · American Nat. Bank of Houston v. American Loan & Mortgage Co. · L. D. Powell Co. v. Sturgeon
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`(a) will involve extreme forfeiture or penalty, and (b) its existence or occurrence forms no essential part of the exchange for the promisor's performance.'”
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.