Cunningham v. Ashbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1931 · most notably Swafford v. Spratt (1902), Poplin v. Brown (1918)
1 federal appellate · 25 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The term sale, however, in its largest sense, may include every agreement for the transferring of ownership,- whether immediate or to be completed afterwards, and goods, in reference to the disposition of them by sale, may be considered as existing separately and ready for immediate delivery, or as a part of a larger mass from which they must be separated by counting, weighing, or measuring, or as goods to be hereafter procured and supplied to the buyer, or to be manufactured for his use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Swift & Co.
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.