Opitz v. Hoertz’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1960
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.
Relationships
Relies on Tuttle v. Embury-Martin Lumber Co. · Bissell v. Ford · Wright v. Big Rapids Door & Blind Manufacturing Co. · Larsen v. Home Telephone Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““this left the reserved power in Brown & Sehler Company to determine when the work should begin, how rapidly it should progress, and to stop the work at any stage if it chose to do so. It was left with Brown & Sehler Company to determine what buildings should be erected, whether they should be large or small, how much they should cost, of what material they should be constructed, and, when once decided, to purchase the materials therefor. It was left to Brown & Sehler Company to employ the men and teams if it chose, and to agree with the men on a price to be paid for their labor and to pay them,””
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.