Wolfe v. Pugh’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Falvey (1885), City of Teree Haute v. Hudnut (1887)
38 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 People v. Mather · Bennett v. . Judson · Daniels v. McGinnis · West v. Wright · Brooster v. State
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This the’ principal may generally avoid [the improper actions of the agent], by submitting to a rescission of the contract, and restoring what he may have received as the fruit of the agent’s bad faith.””
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.