Nickerson v. Nickerson’s Empirical Analysis
127 U.S. 668 · 1888
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1997 · most notably Dalzell v. Dueber Watch-Case Manuf'G Co (1893), Barranco v. Kostens (1947)
29 federal appellate · 10 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 Willard v. Tayloe · John King v. James Hamilton
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■ — '“the caso of a husband who prior to marriage induced in the mind of his intended wife expectations in reference to real property, which, after marriage, he failed to meet, but in respect of that property he did not enter — and perhaps intentionally refrained from entering — into any distinct and binding agreement. * * * She relied upon his honour and has been deceived, but those facts, however strongly they appeal to our sympathy, cannot justify the court in finding upon the meager evidence in this case that there was an agreement upon his part, in consideration of marriage, to settle upon her either the property in Portland, or the property purchased with the proceeds of the sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bradley v. Heyward
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.