Guss v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1936
12 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 Carney v. Newberry
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to entitle one to defend against a contract on the ground of a failure of consideration, the evidence must show something more than inadequacy of consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hannon v. Fink
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.