Nix v. Heald’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1970
5 federal appellate · 4 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellants contend that respondents by commencing work under the contract waived any default of the builder caused by its tardy notification to commence performance. Admitting such contention, arguendo, yet respondents’ waiver of one default did not concede to appellants the right subsequently to breach the contract by hiring another plumber. Nor would respondents’ waiver of the builder’s first default preclude respondents’ action against the builder for a subsequent breach of the contract.” ( 203 P.2d at 850 ).”
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.