Dermott v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 1 · 1864
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 20 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 261 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably United States v. Spearin (1918), Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore (1902)
67 federal appellate · 20 district · 120 state decisions — followed in 34 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 261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-settled rule of law that if a party by his contract charge himself with an obligation possible to be performed, he must make it good, unless its performance is rendered impossible by the act of God, the law, or the other party. Unforeseen difficulties, however great, will not excuse him”—”
18 later decisions 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.