Devlin v. Mayor of New York’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002 · most notably Arkansas Valley Smelting Co. v. Belden Mining Co. (1888), Delaware County Commissioners v. Diebold Safe & Lock Co. (1890)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 93 state decisions — followed in 24 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.
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Parties may, in terms, prohibit the assignment of any contract and declare that neither personal representatives nor assignees shall succeed to any rights in virtue of it, or be bound by its obligations.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the service to be rendered or the conditions to be performed is not necessarily personal, and such as can only with due regard to the intent of the parties, and the rights of the adverse party, be rendered or performed by the original contracting party, and the latter has not disqualified himself from the performance of the contract, the mere fact that the individual representing and acting for him is the assignee, and not the mere agent or servant, will not operate as a rescission of, or constitute a cause for terminating the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The party who has been wrongfully deprived of the gains and profits of an executory contract may recover, as an equivalent and by way of damages, the difference between the contract price, the amount which he would have earned and been entitled to recover on performance, and the amount which it would have cost him to perform the contract” (citing several cases).”
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.