Conrow v. . Little’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1985 · most notably United States v. Oregon Lumber Co. (1922), Robb v. Vos (1894)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Griswold v. . Haven · Equitable Co-Operative Foundry Co. v. Hersee
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They could not do both, and there must 'be a time when their election should be considered final. We think that time was when they commenced an action for the sum due under the contract.” (p. 393.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ireland v. Waymire“a breach of contract to pay for goods and money loaned obtained by fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robb v. Vos“money expended in the preparation of instrumentalities,”
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.