Nilson v. Sarment’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1979 · most notably Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo (1979), Fanning v. Green (1909)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Boggs v. Merced Mining Co. · Jackson v. Torrence · Meyer v. Kinzer · Tolman v. Smith · People ex rel. Stratton v. Oulton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Apart from other considerations, two essential elements of an estoppel are, 1. That the party asserting it must have been ignorant of the true state of facts and of the means of acquiring knowledge of them, and 2. That he must have relied upon the statement or admission of the party whom he seeks to bind by such' statement or admission. ’ ’”
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.