Wolfe v. . Howes’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Thompson v. Insurance Co. (1881), Cameron-Hawn Realty Co. v. . City of Albany (1913)
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The conclusion, then, is that where the performance of work and labor is a condition precedent to entitle the party to recover, a fulfillment must, be shown; yet that where performance is prevented or rendered impossible by the sickness or death of the party, a recovery may be had for the labor actually done. This is not out of harmony with principle or adjudged cases, and is certainly in harmony with the rules of common honesty and strict justice.””
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.