West v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2012
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Olson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Warren v. Ward · International Realty & Securities Corp. v. Vanderpoel · Andresen v. Simon · Freeman v. Fehr
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think the instant case is not distinguishable from Olson * * * where it was held that a right of action for damages for fraudulent representations inducing the purchase of land upon an executory contract does not survive the cancellation of the contract. * * * When the cancellation is completed, there remains to neither vendee nor vendor any cause of action against the other growing out of the land transaction * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zirinsky v. Sheehan
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.