Whedon v. Lancaster County’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1940
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To cancel is to annul and destroy. The cancel lation of a contract necessarily implies a waiver of all the rights thereunder by the parties. If, after a breach by one of the parties, they agree to cancel it, that is a waiver of any cause of action growing out of the original breach. Dreifus, Block & Co. v. Columbian Exposition Salvage Co., 194 Pa. St. 475 ( 45 Atl. 370 , 75 Am. St. Rep. 704 ).””
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.