Rankin v. Schaeffer’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1985
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.
Relationships
Relies on John Wilcox and Thomas Wilcox v. The Executors of Kemp Plummer · In re Negus · Ham v. Hill
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The foundation of this action is the implied promise of defendants to perform with care, diligence and sufficient skill the duty they undertook for the reward agreed upon. This promise was broken by defendants when the certificate of title was delivered, and the statute of limitations then began to run. The action was barred in five years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thorne v. Johnson
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.