Mayer v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1953
7 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
reviewedMayer v. Springer
Relationships
Relies on Ives v. Hartley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ If there was an agreement by which defendant was authorized to mix the wheat with his own grain, or grind and dispose of it, and to keep in store for the plaintiff an equal amount of wheat of the same grade, the question would be whether, he complied with his agreement and kept in store the requisite amount of the same grade, and whether he used proper care for its safety and prevention of fire.””
1 later decision 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.