Wheelwright v. Wheelwright’s Empirical Analysis
1807
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Hotaling v. Hotaling (1924), Kenney v. Parks (1902)
59 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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 Morse v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Lessor makes a lease by deed and delivers it as an escrow, to be delivered over on condition performed, before which lessor dies, and after it is delivered over on condition performed; the lease shall he the deed of the lessor from the first delivery. There is also a strong exception in 5 Coke, 85. If a man deliver a bond as an escrow, to he delivered on condition performed, before which the obligor or obligee dies, and the condition is after performed, here there could be no second delivery, * * although it was only incohata; hut it shall be deemed consummate by the performance of the condition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Jackson
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.