Gregory v. Wendell’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1998 · most notably Irwin v. Williar (1884), 228 Mich. App. 486 - UAW-GM Human Resource Center v. KSL Recreation Corp. (1998)
28 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither can any question exist that if one party to a transaction contemplates an actual purchase, or the other an actual sale, the transaction may be perfectly valid irrespective of any illegal views or purposes that may have been indulged by the other . . . The illegal intent that shall defeat the contract must be the common intent of both parties.” (pp. 437, 439.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.