Wheeler v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1981 · most notably 1 Ill. App. 3d 890 - Zamouski v. Gerrard (1971), Frankland v. Johnson (1893)
35 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 Van Kleeck v. Dutch Church · Taylor v. Beck · Mauri v. Heffernan · Van Court v. Bushnell · Snell, Stag, & Co. v. I. Moses & Sons
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ And the court further held, even when he discloses the name of his principal, if he signs a written contract in his own name merely, which does not show upon its face that he was acting as the agent of another, or in an official capacity for the government, he will be personally bound thereby.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loehde v. Halsey
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.