Gordon v. Brewster’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1922
1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had the respondent (the plaintiff in the court below) seen fit to wait, before bringing his action until the period had elapsed for the complete performance of the agreement, the measure of compensation could then have been easily arrived at. * * * But, as the case now stands, we think he was only entitled to recover his salary on the contract down to the day of trial, deducting there from any wages which he might have received or might have reasonably earned in the meantime. This rule appears to us to be the most equitable and safe that occurs to our minds, and the one most likely to effect substantial justice between the iDarties.””
2 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.