Ellis v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 1968 · most notably Leggett v. Missouri State Life Insurance Company (1960), City of St. Louis ex rel. Glencoe Lime & Cement Co. v. Von Phul (1896)
7 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 11 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 United States v. Mosby · Rogers v. Gosnell · Swett v. Shumway · Keller v. Webb · Fitzgerald v. Barker
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unnecessary to determine here whether Steinhart, as the trustee of an express trust within the meaning of section 369, Code Civ. Proe. could have maintained an action to foreclose these mortgages. That section is permissive only, and did not exclude an action in the name of the real party in interest. As already stated, Steinhart was made a party defendant, and the record shows that he consented that judgment be entered in favor of plaintiff as prayed for in its complaint.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is clear that on principle such right cannot be broader than the party to the contract [through whom the right of action is derived] would have in event of its breach * * * such beneficiary cannot acquire a better standing to enforce the agreement than that occupied by the contracting parties themselves.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Furthermore, the construction placed by the parties themselves upon the words `mercantile debts,' as shown by the opening entries in the books of the firm of Harrison & Ellis, was properly admissible in evidence. In case of doubt as to the significance of such a term, the contemporaneous practice of the parties to the agreement regarding it (before any controversy arises) sheds light upon their probable meaning in its use.”
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.