Howd v. MacGregor’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2002
14 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 Leahy v. Cheney · Hoskins v. Saunders · Williams v. Miner · Ematrudo v. Gordon · Phoenix Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Opper, Admr.
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.
“an expectation of compensation for services rendered, and often a change of a word or turn of a phrase may alter one into the other . . .,”
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.