Way v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably Brin v. Michalski (1915), Commissioner v. Hart (1935)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 Pray v. Stebbins · Gault v. Stormont · Naylor v. Minock · Hammond v. Hannin · Allen v. Atkinson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An agreement to convey, though invalid to affect the title to real estate, in whole or in part, may yet be valid between the parties as a basis for the recovery of damages by reason of its breach.””
2 later decisions 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.