Eschenbacher v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Ray v. Nansel (2002), Emmerson v. Walker (2010)
67 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 Interstate Production Credit Ass'n v. Desaye · Carbon County v. Union Reserve Coal Co., Inc. · United California Bank v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Daines v. Knight · Ophus v. Fritz
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here an award of attorney[ ] fees is based on a contract, the prevailing party is entitled to his reasonable attorney[ ] fees on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Toenjes v. Toenjes“an unequivocal statement that the demanding party will not perform unless the other party meets the additional term.”
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.