Ketchum & Sweet v. Evertson’s Empirical Analysis
1816
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably Vines v. Orchard Hills, Inc. (1980), Jacob Le Roy v. William Beard (1850)
37 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The plaintiffs are seeking to recover the money advanced Upon a contract, every part of which the defendant has performed, so far as he could by his own acts, when they have voluntarily and causelessly refused to proceed, and thus have themselves rescinded the contract.””
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.