Associated Merchants v. Ormesher’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zasloff (1940), 174 W. Va. 538 - Hartsock-Flesher Candy Co. v. Wheeling Wholesale Grocery Co. (1984)
38 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Northern Securities Company v. United States · Old Dearborn Distributing Co. v. Seagram-Distillers Corp. · Stephenson v. Binford · Hygrade Provision Co. v. Sherman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hence, in the absence of provisions to the contrary, we must presume that the legislature did not intend to prescribe that the cost must be absolutely exact, and that it must be based upon the precise method of accounting which any one merchant might adopt, but meant, by ‘cost,’ what business men generally mean,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) In closing out in good faith the owner's stock or any part thereof for the purpose of discontinuing his trade in any such stock or commodity, and in the case of the sale of seasonal goods or to the bona fide sale of perishable goods to prevent loss to the vendor by spoilage or depreciation;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(c) By an officer acting under the orders of any court;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.