McLean v. Windham Light & Power Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1991
15 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 Waterman v. Banks · James Bell v. Matthias Bruen · Barnard v. Lee · David Secombe et al. v. Franklin Steele · Town of Royalton v. Royalton & Woodstock Turnpike Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule in equity is that time is not of the essence of the contract, and equity will not treat it as of the essence of the contract unless it affirmatively and clearly appears that the parties so regarded it. . . . It is not enough that a specific time be named in the contract; the court is to look at the whole scope of the transaction to see whether the parties really meant the time named to be of the essence of the contract.”
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.