Black v. Woodrow’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Ide v. Leiser (1890), Griffith v. Scheungrab (1985)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It very frequently happens that contracts on their face and by their express terms appear to be obligatory on one party only; but in such cases, if-it be manifest that it was the intention of the parties, and the consideration upon which one party assumed an express obligation, that there should be a corresponding and correlative obligation on the other party, such corresponding and correlative obligation will be implied, — as, if the act to .be done by the party binding himself can only be done upon a corresponding act being done or allowed by the other party,' an obligation by the latter to do or allow to be done the act or things necessary for the completion of the contract will be necessarily implied.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.