Scofield v. Tompkins’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Poinsettia Dairy Products, Inc. v. the Wessel Co. (1936), 181 Ill. App. 3d 513 - Stone v. City of Arcola (1989)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The parties are authorized to agree upon any sum as compensation for the breach of the contract, which does not manifestly exceed the amount of the injury suffered. This is believed to be the doctrine of the courts and to be well sustained by the authorities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Radloff v. Haase
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.