Holmes v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1932
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.
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Foster · Haskins v. Warren · Barlow v. Lambert · Collender v. . Dinsmore · McCulsky v. Klosterman
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hence, proof of usage or custom, if any prevailed, is admissible to supply these details upon which the contract is silent; if such usage or custom was known to the plaintiffs at the time the contract was made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hurst v. Larson
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.