Adams v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2016
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Hammond v. Hopkins · St Paul Co v. Northern Pac R Co · Walden v. Skinner · William Smith v. Guy Richards · Chatham Furnace Co. v. Moffatt
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dictionary (9th ed.2009); see also Adams v. Reed, 11 Utah 480 , 40 P. 720, 724 (Terr.1895) ("A contract is executory when the thing agreed has not been done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olsen v. Fair Co.
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.