Stanley v. Whitlow’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1990
14 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 Eyerman v. Mount Sinai Cemetery Ass'n · Ballentine & Boone v. Mercer · Bagnell Timber Co. v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · Murphy v. Knights of Columbus Building Co. · Hiemenz v. Goerger
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is no doubt true that one cannot declare upon an explicit contract and then recover as upon a quantum meruit.”
1 later decision 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.