Lockerby v. Amon’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1955
12 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 Mueller v. Northwestern University · City of Omaha v. Standard Oil Co. · Behrens v. Cloudy · Johnson v. Eklund · Bonds-Foster Lumber Co. v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
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.
““Whatever may have been the reasons for reserving the right to decline to deal with an assignee, such reservation contravenes no rule of public policy, and is enforceable. We attach no importance to the clauses of the contract in which the word ‘assignee’ is used. They will be construed in the light of the whole contract, and when so regarded, must be taken to mean such assignees as the vendor is willing to accept.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bethel v. Matthews““But it is needless for us to speculate on the motives for the city’s action. It is enough for us to know— whatever its reasons may have been — that it has, in plain language, stipulated, against the assignment of the contract. That stipulation is valid and must be enforced. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. Bondy““ ‘And it is further agreed that no assignment of this agreement shall be valid without the consent and signature of W. E. Amon and Sarah M. Amon, his wife, the parties of the first part.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bethel v. Matthews
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.