Irwin v. Williar’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 499 · 1884
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 11 district · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 316 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Hobbs v. McLean (1886)
87 federal appellate · 11 district · 133 state decisions — followed in 37 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 J. B. Lyon & Co. v. Culbertson, Blair & Co. · Roundtree v. Smith · Barnard v. Backhaus · Gregory v. Wendell
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 316 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Brit such a contract is only valid, when the parties really intend and agree that the goods are to be delivered by the seller and the price paid by the buyer; and, il under guise of such a contract the real intent be merely to speculate in the rise or fall of prices, and the goods are not to be delivered, but one party is to pay lo the oilier the difference between the contract price and the market price ol' the goods at the date fixed for executing the contract, then the whole transaction constitutes nothing more than a wager and is null and void.” Benj. on Sales, 541.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is certainly true that a broker might negotiate such a contract without being privy to the illegal intent of the principal parties to it, which renders it void,- and in such a ease, being innocent of any violation of law, and not suing to enforce an unlawful contract, has a meritorious ground for the recovery of compensation for services and advanees.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If. however, at the time of'entering into a contract for a sale of personal property for future delivery it be contemplated by botli parties that at the time fixed for delivery the purchaser shall merely receive or pay the difference between the contract and the market price, the transaction is a wager, and nothing more.” 110 U. S. 508 , 4 Sup. Ct. 165 , 28 L. Ed. 225 .”
4 later decisions 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.