McDevitt v. Waple & James, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1990
9 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 Parker v. Motor Boat Sales, Inc. · District Hauling & Construction Co. v. Argerakis · United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. v. Levensaler · Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. Lindeman · Meyer v. Capital Transit Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] custom has the force of law, and furnishes a standard for the measurement of many of the rights and acts of men. It must be certain or the measurements by this standard will be unequal and unjust.”
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.