Lingenfelder v. Wainwright Brewing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Nicolella v. Palmer (1968), Blakeslee v. Board of Water Commissioners (1927)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Vanderbilt v. . Schreyer · Wiggins Ferry Co. v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Bishop v. Busse · Reynolds v. Nugent · Kick v. Merry
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He took advantage of Waiuwright’s necessities, and extorted the promise” without “even the flimsy pretext that Wainwright had violated any of the conditions of the contract on his part.””
2 later decisions 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.