Cole v. Emerson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1994
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 Grisham v. Lee · Schaffner v. Estate of Schaffner · Jewell v. Central Trust Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘If the contract of employment does not fix any time for payment, the general rule, in the absence of construction of the agreement to the contrary, is that the statute begins to run when the work is completed, and not sooner; for the promise to pay continues up to the time the work is finished.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Head v. Knopp
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.