Campbell v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Martinez v. Research Park, Inc. (1965), Wood Bros. Homes, Inc. v. Walker Adjustment Bureau (1979)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 Lasko v. Meier · Burruss v. B. M. C. Logging Co. · De Palma v. Weinman · Latta v. Harvey · Bland v. Greenfield Gin 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“collection of compensation for the performance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““c. If the plaintiff’s performance is part of the very performance for which the defendant bargained as part of an agreed exchange, it is to be valued, not by the extent to which the defendant’s total wealth has been increased thereby, but by the amount for which such services and materials as constituted the part performance could have been purchased from one in the plaintiff’s position at the time they were rendered. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allsup v. Space“at the time the alleged cause of action arose,”
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.