Colton v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis
114 F. 863 · 1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Arkansas Valley Smelting Co. v. Belden Mining Co. · Delaware County Commissioners v. Diebold Safe & Lock Co. · Devlin v. Mayor of New York · United States Trust Co. v. New York West Shore & Buffalo Railway Co. · Hunter v. . Wetsell
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no restatement of the terms of the prior oral agreement when the payment was made, and no express recognition thereof, nor was the payment made for the avowed purpose of binding the prior bargain.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koewing v. Wilder
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.