Michaelis v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1953 · most notably Wortman v. Kleinschmidt (1892), Hennessy v. Metzger (1894)
5 federal appellate · 36 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 Barney v. Giles · Wolf v. Michaelis
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where in a building contract provision is made for the payment of the price or a portion or portions of such price upon the certificate or certificates of the architect in charge of. the construction of the building, the obtaining or presentation of such certificate or certificates is a condition precedent to the fight to require payment, and such condition must be strictly complied with, or else a good and sufficient excuse shown for not complying therewith.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Jones
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.