Clark v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1977 · most notably Spiess v. Brandt (1950), Mahurin v. Schmeck (1964)
1 district · 25 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 I. L. Corse & Co. v. Minnesota Grain Co. · Barnett v. Speir · Marple v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad · Potter v. Taggart · McCarty v. New York Life Insurance
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If, as he claims, he is still able to turn the business back to defendants in substantially the same condition as when he took it over, and is also ready and able to turn over to them the profits which have accrued since he rescinded the contract, he is entitled to recover the consideration with which he parted. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under such circumstances it was at least proper for him [the defrauded party], if not his duty, to take such steps as were reasonably necessary to conserve the value of the business.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perkins v. Meyerton
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.