Cramer v. Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1995
9 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 Howe v. Raymond · Manistee Lumber Co. v. Union National Bank · Tice v. Moore · Stamford Trust Co. v. Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. · Pulsifer v. Hotchkiss
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to form the projected company ... and a refusal or failure to issue the stock subscribed for or inability to issue it, will constitute a failure of consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lebowitz v. McPike“would be a complete legal defense to an action on the contract itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lebowitz v. McPike
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.