Webb v. Trescony’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1972 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent (1972), Kirk v. Culley (1927)
30 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.
Relationships
Relies on Baldwin v. Bennett · Corcoran v. Desmond · Coffee v. Meiggs
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, from the nature of the contract, as in this case, no possible mode is left for ascertaining the damage, we will have presented the anomalous case of a wrong without a remedy, unless we adopt the only measure of damages which remains, and that is the price agreed to be paid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dolph v. Speckart
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.