Rogers v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably Chandler v. Chicago & Alton Railroad (1913), Kinney v. Murray (1902)
25 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 Phillips v. Thompson · Ells v. Pacific Railroad · Emmel v. Hayes · Sitton v. Shipp · Berry v. Hartzell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the terms are uncertain or ambiguous or not made out by satisfactory proofs, a specific performance will not (as indeed upon principle it should not) be decreed. The reason would seem obvious enough, for a court of equity ought not to act upon conjecture, and one of the most important objects of the statute was to prevent the introduction of loose and indeterminate proof of what ought to be established by solemn written contracts.’ [1 Story, Eq. Jur., sec. 764; Berry v. Hartzell, 91 Mo. 132 ; Sitton v. Shipp, 65 Mo. 297 ; Paris v. Haley, 61 Mo. 453 ; Underwood v. Underwood, 48 Mo. 527 .] ‘There must be satisfactory proof not merely of some agreement leading to acts of part”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melville v. Waring
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.