Meyer v. Pulitzer Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably 233 Mo. App. 212 - Beebe v. the Columbia Axle Co. (1938), Boehm v. Spreckels (1920)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Glover v. Henderson · Echols v. New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad · Butler v. Smith · Irish v. Dean · State ex rel. Walker v. Walker
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The rule of decision is universal throughout those jurisdictions where the common law obtains to the effect that a contract or appointment of agency which is wholly indefinite in point of its duration will not be considered as a perpetual contract and enforced as such, but, on the contrary, may be terminated at any time by either party. * * *”
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.