Little v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1950
2 district · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This promise or statement was made after the contract had been entered into, and the plaintiffs, as is found, ‘had then done and completed all that was required of them under their contract with defendant.’ So far as appears, the promise was a mere naked agreement, without consideration, and could have no legal effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Titus v. Whiteside
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.