French v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1974
1 district · 7 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 Von Trotha v. Bamberger
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right of a party who has done acts in part execution of a verbal contract, to call upon a court of equity to enforce it against the other, is subject to the same general restrictions as that of any other plaintiff in equity.... It must... appear that his position is such that an action at law for damages will not afford him adequate relief. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnford v. Blanning
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.