Waddle v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1994
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 Bodwell v. M. Heaton & Co. · Brundige v. Blair · Kratz v. Padfield · Schaffer v. Mills
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can never be employed to make a new contract or to supply terms upon which the minds of the parties never met.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Exhibit A. “Know All Men by These Presents: That we, the undersigned, being stockholders or other interested parties in The Hopewell Cooperative Exchange, a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Kansas, do hereby request the directors of said the Equity Exchange to bond and pledge themselves individually to the Farmers State Bank of Hopewell, Kan., for the purpose of obtaining credit for the said Equity Exchange in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars. “Now, If the directors of said the Equity Exchange will so bond and pledge themselves individually to said bank, we the undersigned stockholders hereby agree that we will reimburse said directors for any loss arising on account of said bond or pledge up to and including the sum of five hundred dollars each; it being our intention that each signer of this instrument shall stand individually liable for any sum up to and including five hundred dollars for the purpose of making said directors safe in signing said pledge, or bond to said bank. “In case any loss is sustained by said directors on account of said bond or pledge, we hereby agree promptly to reimburse said directors for said loss; it being distinctly understood, however, that no one stockholder shall be called upon to pay more than five hundred dollars.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waddle v. Bird
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.