Flaum v. Wallace Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1915
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That since the confusion of tongues in the Tower of Babel, there has been nothing more noteworthy in the same line than the discordant and ever shifting utterances of the judicial mind on the subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Paquin.“without the written consent of her husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Paquin.
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.