Van Abel v. Wemmering’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1947
8 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 James v. . Burchell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No opinion is herein expressed as to the legal rights of the parties in relation to said contract. The views herein expressed relate solely to the right and remedy of specific performance as applied to the particular circumstances of this case. “The judgment and order appealed from are reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to enter judgment on the findings in favor of defendant.””
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.