Tewksbury v. O'Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1991
20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“says: ‘A writing inter partes is prepared by which one party is to covenant for the payment of money, and the other for the conveyance of lands—each of these mutual covenants being the consideration for the other. One party sits down and executes, but the other stops short, and for some cause, no matter what, does not execute the instrument. It is impossible, I think, to maintain that the party who has”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Emeric v. Alvarado
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.