Long v. Needham’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1968 · most notably Steen v. Rustad (1957), Cates v. McNeil (1915)
25 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 Finlen v. Heinze · Turner v. McCormick · Christiansen v. Aldrich · Hollis v. Burgess · Swiger v. Hayman
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Property rights are sacred and should be well guarded by the law; but, when a man has deliberately made a fair contract of sale, he ought not to be permitted to avoid it on some flimsy pretext in order to avail himself of a better bargain’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steen v. Rustad
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.