Evans v. McClure’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably Dearborn Stove Co. v. Caples (1951), Schoen v. New Britain Trust Co. (1930)
28 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 Cunningham v. Stockon · Bloch v. Tucker
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the express terms of the contract the $900 paid by the original lessee to the lessor was, as we have already seen, simply a payment in advance of rent, and the contract, not containing any provision that it should be paid back, and it is not recoverable by the defendants. See Bloch v. Tucker [ 107 Ark. 349 ] 154 S.W. 1140 ; Werner v. Padula, 49 App.Div. 135 , 63 N.Y.S. 68 ; Forgotston v. Brafman (Sup.) 84 N.Y.S. 237 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. McCall
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.