House v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1955
15 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 Fent v. Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway Co. · Baker v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. · Fuhr v. Dean · Lane v. Miller · Cook v. Pridgen, Stapler & Dunn
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From tbe eases which have been cited, we may deduce two things: * * * A license cannot be revoked or withdrawn so long as it is essential to the possession or enjoyment of a vested right or interest, which has been created by the licensor, or placed, with his assent, in a situation where the continuance of the license is essential to its enjoyment. These inferences obviously result from the general rule that no one can recall a promise or declaration made with a view to influence the course of another after he has acted upon it, and thus placed himself in a position where he must necessarily suffer if it be withdrawn. An equitable estoppel arises, under these circumstances, to prevent the legal title from being used as a means of injustice.””
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.