Evans v. Graden’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1933 · most notably Kennedy v. Bowling (1928), Burnes Estate v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. (1902)
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 Beers v. Wolf · Bragg v. Shain · Taylor v. Jeter
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.
“We think this evidence made a case for the jury on the question whether Park made overpayments, and the question whether defendant gave his consent thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rider Son gave bond to secure the performance of the contract, with the defendant Graden”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“over seventy per cent of the work done, the whole work to be completed”
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.