Whitcomb v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1922
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Detroit, March 16th, 1871. “Received of D. Whitney, Jr., five hundred dollars on account for all the upper qualities and select common and cutting up or fine common lumber that I make at Rock Falls in town of Sand Beach, Michigan, this season, at fair price, what said Whitney can afford to pay; the lumber is to be delivered on rail of vessel when lumber is ready to ship, or when vessel is ready to send for it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ Suppose the defendant’s vessel had called at the dock for it [the lumber]; could plaintiff have refused to allow him to take the lumber away and maintained replevin for it if he had done so ?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Everything now depended upon the action of the defendant [the vendee] which might be expedited or delayed as should suit his own convenience.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.