Cory v. Troth’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Brown v. Wichita State University (1975), Price, Administrator v. Holmes (1967)
4 district · 18 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 French v. French · Howe v. Mohl · Maddock v. Riggs
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under G. S. 1947 Supp. 60-3201, any cause of action accruing to a promisee either for fraud in procuring the contract or for breach thereof survives the death of the promisee and an action therefor may be maintained only by his personal representative and not by his heirs.””
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.