Penney v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1973 · most notably Trotter v. Lewis (1946), Shull v. Sexton (1964)
31 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 Ellis v. Burden · Casey v. Holmes, Bott & Earle · Sims v. McEwen's Adm'r · Pulliam v. Owen
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the bill shows a contract of sale and agreement to convey, which is definite and certain enough to be performed, it is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKenzie v. Sutton
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.