Innes v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1936
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the interference to prevent a fair and usual sale to the highest bidder is enough of itself to estop the parties from claiming a deficiency which they have been the means of creating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briscoe v. O'Connor“is meant to enforce a liability which the parties are estopped from asserting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briscoe v. O'Connor
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.