Sawyer v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1992
5 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 Exchange Bank v. Ford
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘obligation’ is a generic word, and, when used in its broadest sense, includes all kinds of contracts by which a person may become bound, •and should be so construed, unless, from the connection in which it is used, it is to be gathered that the legislature intended to give it a more limited signification * *”
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.