Wright v. Waller’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1928
13 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 Holland v. Barnes · Miller v. Finley · Bates v. Ball · Johns v. Fritchey · Henry v. Ritenour
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is evident that drunkenness, when it goes so far as to absolutely destroy the reason, renders a person in this state, so long as it continues, incapable of contracting, since it .renders him incapable of consent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coody v. Coody““The contract of a * * * drunken person -is voidable, at his option, if it can be shown that at the time of making the contract he was absolutely incapable of understanding what he was doing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coody v. Coody““An express contract, entered into when the obligor is in a state of intoxication, so as to deprive him of the exercise of his understanding, is voidable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coody v. Coody
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.