William Stewart v. Lewis a Griffith W’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Romm v. Flax (1995), Rigs v. Sokol (1945)
5 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Insurance Company v. Norton · Titus v. . Glens Falls Insurance Company · Wilcoxson v. Stitt · Dana v. St. Paul Investment Co. · Oakes v. Manufacturers' Fire & Marine Insurance
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The condition is plainly for the benefit of the vendor and hardly less plainly for his benefit. alone, except so far as it may have fixed the time when Stewart might have called for performance if he had chosen to do so, which he did not. This being so, the word void means voidable at the vendor’s election and the condition may be insisted upon or waived at his choice. ’ ’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The first defense is based on this document itself. It is said that the defendant made no covenant and therefore was free to withdraw if he chose to sacrifice the $500 that he had paid.””
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.