Young v. . Leary’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1956 · most notably Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore (1902), Mulvaney v. King Paint Mfg. Co. (1919)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Harmony v. . Bingham · Phillips v. Stevens · Warner v. Hitchins · Ames v. Belden · Hyland v. Paul
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When language is used which does no more than express in terms the same obligation which the law raises from the facts of the transaction itself, the party using the language is no further bound than he would have been without it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.