Wherry v. Latimer’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably Gillis v. Smith (1917), 443 So. 2d 861 - First Nat. Bank of Vicksburg v. Caruthers (1983)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Washington v. Soria · Hines v. Potts · Ricketts v. Jolliff · Carson v. Vicksburg Bank · Simonton v. Bacon
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A mere suggestion of a weakness of intellect alone is not of itself sufficient to avoid the contract; it must be shown that the other party used some undue means to, draw him into the agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gillis v. Smith
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.