Richards v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1961
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Evans v. Chicago & Rock Island Railroad · Booth v. Tyson
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.
““It is a rule supported by the weight of modern authority, that, if the buyer of a specified quantity of goods sold under an entire contract, receive a part thereof, and retain it after the seller has refused to deliver the residue, there is a severance of the entirety of the contract, and the buyer becomes liable to • the seller for the price of such part; but he may reduce the seller’s claim by showing that he has sustained damage by the seller’s failure to fulfill his contract.” R. N. Benjamin’s Principles of Sales, p. 146, § 3, and eases cited.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States ex rel. Hudson River Stone Supply Co. v. Molloy · Bankers Life and Casualty Company v. Bellanca Corporation, Bellanca Corporation, Counter-Claimant-Appellee v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Counter-Defendant-Appellant. Bellanca Corporation, Counter-Claimant-Appellant v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Counter-Defendant-Appellee“Although this rule may be a relaxation of the earlier and more generally received doctrine, that the entire performance, on the part of the vendor, of such a contract as the one in question, is a condition precedent to the payment of the price, and the maintenance of an action for its recovery, the rule seems to be a fair and just one, and we are disposed to give it our acquiescence.”
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.