Wright v. Scotton’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Medtronic, Inc. v. Intermedics, Inc. (1984), Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co. (1940)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 88 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 Phillips v. Thompson · Swanson v. Kirby · My Laundry Co. v. Schmeling · Knowles v. Jones · Mangan v. Schuylkill County
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where it would be practically unjust to give a remedy, either because the party has, by his conduct, done that which might fairly be regarded as equivalent to a waiver of it, or where, by his conduct and neglect, he has, perhaps, not waiving that remedy, yet put the other party in a situation in which it would not be reasonable to place him, if the remedy were afterwards to be asserted in either of these cases, lapse of time is most material.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.