Draper v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1988
2 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 McIntosh v. Groomes · Gates v. Gamble · People ex rel. Holmes v. Sheehan · Kunzie v. Nibbelink · Maclean v. Fitzsimons
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Every word in the agreement must be taken to have been used for a purpose, and no word should be rejected as mere surplusage if the court can discover any reasonable purpose thereof which can be gathered from the whole instrument.’ 6 R. C. L. p. 838, quoted in McIntosh v. Groomes, 227 Mich. 215, 218 .””
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.