Embry v. Hargadine’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1999
5 federal appellate · 16 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 Phillip v. . Gallant · Brannock v. Elmore · Belt v. Goode · Davies v. Baldwin · Moore v. Mexico Savings Bank
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“though McKittrick may not have intended to employ Embry * * * if what McKittrick said would have been taken by a reasonable man to be an employment, and Embry so understood it, it constituted a valid contract of employment for the ensuing year.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. Schiff“not only to find the conversation occurred as [Embry] swore, but that both parties intended by such conversation to contract with each other * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. Schiff“intention is an influential element, it is only such intention as the words or acts of the parties indicate * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. Schiff
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.