Wolbert v. Rief’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1980
6 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 Trotter v. Lewis · Plitt v. Kaufman · Edison Realty Co. v. Bauernschub · Crane Ice Cream Co. v. Terminal Freezing & Heating Co. · Doering v. Fields
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rights which would not otherwise be capable of assignment because too personal in their character and duties, the performance óf which for a similar reason, could not be delegated, may be assigned or delegated if the contract so provides, or if in the absence of such a provision the other party consents.””
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.