Ryan v. McLane’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1948
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Gelston v. Sigmund · Duvall v. Myers · Horner v. Woodland · Bamberger v. Johnson · Gottschalk v. Stein
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity will not decree a specific performance of a contract for the sale of chattels, because the breach may lie sufficiently remedied by damages. If A. refuses to deliver goods he has sold to B., the latter may purchase them elsewhere, and recover the loss to him resulting from A.’s failure to perform. This rule extends to all kinds of personal property, including government bonds and the shares of stock and bonds of business corporations, which are always to be bought in the market. But in the application of this rule three classes of cases are to-be excepted, though two of them are not exceptions to but rather further illustrations of the govern ing principle, viz., that agreements will not be specifically enforced, unless from the nature of the contract, the character of the subject-matter or other special and peculiar causes damages will not be an adequate remedy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.