Reed v. . McConnell’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 1949 · most notably American Woolen Co. v. . Samuelsohn (1919), Bank of China, Japan & the Straits, Ltd. v. Morse (1901)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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 Southwick v. First National Bank of Memphis · People Ex Rel. Witherbee v. Board of Supervisors · Day v. . N.Y.C.R.R. 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘Tlie general principle that a party to a void contract cannot repudiate it and retain what he has received from the other under it is well settled. Day v. N. Y. C. R. R., 51 N. Y. 583 , and cases cited. The law in such case will raise an implied assumpsit in favor of the other party to accomplish justice and prevent fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crowe v. Baumann
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.