Holbrook v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1840
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990 · most notably Davis v. Wakelee (1895), Harbor Insurance v. Continental Bank Corp. (1990)
5 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is said there is no evidence in the case that the plaintiffs had either accepted or paid the drafts. There is not indeed any direct evidence; but the fact of acceptance was assumed throughout the trial. The judge referred to it in his charge to the jury. It is strange, if such a material (act were out of the case, that it was not mentioned as an objection, and made a point.””
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.