Elliott v. Howison’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 1951 · most notably Moore v. Williamson (1925), Montgomery Enterprises v. Empire Theater Co. (1920)
1 federal appellate · 59 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 Pope v. Allis · Pierson v. . Crooks · White v. . Miller · McFadden & Bro. v. Henderson · Barnett v. Stanton
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to be the rule of our court, then, that where the rescission is not by mutual consent, and the opposite party has not repudiated the contract, to effect rescission, notice of the rescission must be brought home-to the opposite party and reasonable time must be given him after the notice to comply.””
1 later decision 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.