Bower v. Bagley’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1970
6 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 Mudgett v. Clay · Leaird v. . Smith · Simpson v. Atkinson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the performance of a contract will be specifically enforced by the court depends upon the circumstances of the particular case. And the granting or refusing of the remedy has been said to be a matter resting in the sound and legal discretion of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If time is not the essence of the contract, and the party applying to the court has acted in good faith, and his cause is meritorious and equitable, he will obtain the relief demanded, even although the time for the performance has elapsed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cowley v. Foster
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.