Lawrence v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
63 F. 62 · 1894
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably 107 Ill. App. 3d 176 - Lyntel Products, Inc. v. Alcan Aluminum Corp. (1981), Life Care Centers of America, Inc. v. Charles Town Associates Ltd. Partnership, LPIMC, Inc. (1996)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 City of St Louis v. Western Union Tel Co · Wicker v. Hoppock · Warren v. Stoddart · St. Louis v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Grand Tower Company v. Phillips et al.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a waiver of the original contract, or of any right of action for its breach”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tlie offer after the breach by the defendants to sell the lumber necessary to complete the contract was not coupled with any condition operating as an abandonment of the contract, nor as a waiver of any right of action for damages for the breach.””
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.