Barrett v. Monro’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1979
6 federal appellate · 10 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 Dutton v. Christie · Madler v. Silverstone · McDaniels v. Gowey
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was respondent’s duty to make the stipulated monthly payments. Her failure constituted an unquestioned breach of the contract which subjected her to a termination of the lease and payment of the stipulated liquidated damages. When her breach occurred, appellants were entitled to give the statutory notice to terminate the tenancy in the event of her continued default, and thereafter retain the deposit in satisfaction of their liquidated damages. They were not required to permit a continuance of the default, and thus increase their damages to such an extent that the liquidated sum would be insufficient to protect them. The contract had no such purpose in'view. It is manifest that the parties agreed upon liquidated damages because their exact measurement could not be readily made. The sum agreed upon is not unreasonable, in view of the value and importance of the entire lease,” etc. etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Munson v. Baldwin““The fallacy of respondent’s argument lies in her assumption that the $1,200 was advanced as security only. She ignores the probable contingency that a loss of the tenancy might cause damages to appellants difficult of ascertainment, whether termination of the' tenancy resulted from a wrongful and voluntary surrender by respondent or from respondent’s default in payment of rent, coupled with appellants’ election to then terminate the lease. By exercising their election to terminate the lease, appellants did not waive their right to retain the liquidated damages. The default which caused such termination originated with respondent.” Barrett v. Monro, 69 Wash. 229 , 124 Pac. 369 , 40 L. R. A. (N. S.) 763.”
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.