Elliott v. Lindquist’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably HORNSBY v. LOHMEYER (1950), Robinson Township School District v. Houghton (1956)
38 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 Farmers State Bank v. Haun · Jacobs v. Wilkes-Barre Township School District · Weldon & Kelly Co. v. Pavia Co. · Bagley v. Reno Oil Co. · Bay City Lumber Co. v. Anderson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . contracting parties cannot ignore their own contractual covenants with impunity and still seek to hold the others to the contract, . . . Parties to a written contract may abandon, modify or change it by words or by conduct: (p. 388.) “The evidence, . . . supports the learned chancellor’s findings and conclusions to the effect that the stockholders who are now complaining had no equity that would support the decree prayed for.” (p. 391.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Anderson““. . . the by-laws‘constitute the contract between the stockholders and are subject to the rules governing a written contract signed by all the parties. It follows that contracting parties cannot ignore their own contractual covenants with impunity and still seek to hold the others to the contract.’””
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.