Townsend v. Stick’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.2d 142 · 1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1998
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Richardson v. Greensboro Warehouse & Storage Co. · Crotts v. . Thomas
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have examined these contentions closely and are convinced that they are either matters of performance rather than matters involved in the formation of the contract, or that they are substantially covered by the contract or would be implied by law.” Townsend v. Stick, supra, at 145 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. Cardwell
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.