Pacific Factor Co. v. Adler’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 1960 · most notably United States v. Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. (1898), 29 Cal. 2d 34 - Speegle v. Board of Fire Underwriters (1946)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 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 Arnot v. . Pittston and Elmira Coal Co. · Craft v. McConoughy · Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Co. v. Hayes · Patent Brick Co. v. Moore
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether a contract is such that ‘from the nature of the case’ it would be impracticable or extremely difficult to fix the actual damage sustained by a breach thereof is a question of fact, which must be determined in each particular case; and for the purpose of determining this question the court must examine the attendant and surrounding circumstances under which the contract was entered into, as well as the terms of the contract itself. Parties cannot by their arbitrary agreement preclude such examination by the court, or avoid the -provisions of the statute.””
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.