Wendover v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Nowack v. Berger (1896), Troll v. Spencer (1911)
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 Sullivan v. Portland and Kennebec Railroad Company · Colson v. Thompson · Vanderbilt v. . Schreyer · Aull Savings Bank v. Aull's Administrator · Butts v. Phelps
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.
““. . . had no legal right to retain possession of the premises after condition broken, hence his agreement to surrender possession was a mere nude pact constituting no valuable consideration.””
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.