Carpenter v. Thornburn’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1954
21 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 Cheney v. Libby · Quertermous v. Hatfield
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, in this contract the parties expressly stipulated that time was of the essence of the contract. The right of the defendant to purchase the land depended under the contract, upon the prompt payment of the five rent notes as they fell due. Until he had paid those notes, he had under his contract no right to purchase. . . . The contract may be a harsh one, but it contravenes no rule of public policy. The parties made it, and the courts cannot alter it.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hafemann v. Korinek
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.