Whitney v. Hay’s Empirical Analysis
181 U.S. 77 · 1901
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 1967 · most notably Brooks v. Yarbrough (1930), 266 F. Supp. 766 - City Stores Company v. Ammerman (1967)
22 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dougherty v. Nevada Bank · Neale v. Neales · Brown v. Sutton · 15 App. D.C. 164 - Whitney v. Hay
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““is a case where an old childless couple made a contract to leave a home to a younger couple in consideration of the younger couple becoming members of the older couple’s family. The younger couple gave up their home and moved in with the older couple, furnishing the home of the older people and supporting them. The court said, with reference to the younger husband, that his plans of life were materially altered in order that he might take care of Piper and wife during their respective lives. Piper put Hay in actual possession of the premises for execution of his agreement with Hay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goetz v. Jacobs
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.