Wassermann v. Sloss’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Smith v. Bach (1920), Severance v. Knight-Counihan Co. (1947)
33 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 Johnston v. Russell · Tyler v. Carlisle · Morgan v. Groff · Adams Express Co. v. Reno
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As long as money deposited with an agent for an illegal purpose remains unemployed, or if the. purpose be countermanded 'by the principal before its application, it is a debt which may be recovered from the agent by the principal, either at law or in equity.” (Page 529.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. Spinney““Seeing the error of his ways, the law says a party may withdraw from the transaction; and it extends to him a helping hand by offering the inducement of giving back to him anything of value with which he has parted.” (Wassermann v. Sloss, supra, p. 428.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. Spinney
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.