Mackey v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1957
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tbe provision is absolute that this agreement — i. e., the whole agreement — shall be void. It is not a provision that the plaintiffs may, at their option or election, abandon or dissolve the agreement, but that it shall, upon the occurrence of the specified contingency, become void, and therefore no longer binding upon either party.””
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.