Waggoner v. Flack’s Empirical Analysis
188 U.S. 595 · 1903
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934), City of El Paso v. Simmons (1965)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 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 Fristoe v. Leon & H. Blum · Culbertson v. Blanchard · Wilson v. Standefer · Waggoner v. Flack
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case of an alteration of a remedy, if one is left or provided which is fairly sufficient, the obligations of a contract are not impaired, although the remedies existing at the time it was entered into are taken away.””
2 later decisions 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.