Wiseman v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1968
4 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 Standard Fashion Co. v. Magrane-Houston Co. · Wells v. Alexandre · Wells v. . Alexandre · Hickey v. O'Brien · Quincy Oil Co. v. Sylvester
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that the quantity of gas which Wiseman agreed to purchase was to be measured by the necessities of his business, but the contract presupposes that Wiseman would have a business for the time agreed, and it cannot be avoided by a sale of his business within that time. [Citing authorities]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.