Ferguson v. Mansfield’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably Sheppard v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. (1939), Gulf Pipe Line Co. v. Nearen (1940)
49 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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is quite elementary that an instrument payable upon a condition which does not import an absolute liability is not payable until that condition has happened. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thigpen v. Thigpen
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.