Seiffert Co. v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1994
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Burns v. Bradford-Kennedy Lumber Co. · Goldie-Klenert Distributing Co. v. Bothwell · Dixon v. Parker, Moran & Parker · First National Bank v. Geske & Co. · Pressentin v. Hawkeye Timber Co.
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.
“"... the facts in this case fall short of establishing that the leading purpose of the promisor was to subserve some interest or purpose of his own within the meaning of the [leading purpose] rule ...””
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.