Wright v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1997 · most notably Closson v. Billman (1904), Goeke v. Merchants National Bank & Trust Co. of Indianapolis (1984)
32 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 Davis v. Wells · Douglass v. Howland · Wills v. Ross · Furst & Bradley Manufacturing Co. v. Black · Union Bank v. . Coster's Executors
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But here the undertaking was absolute. The defendant said to the plaintiffs, in substance, 'If you deliver the goods, I will guaranty the payment.' We can not add a condition that the defendant shall have notice. He should have provided for that himself in the proposal made to the plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“let my daughter have what goods she wants and I will pay the bills.”
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.