Baldwin v. Morey’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1955
2 federal appellate · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Logically viewed, the contract has terminated by failure to comply with the conditions, but as contrary pretensions were set up, and as plaintiff is entitled to have the cloud removed from his title, judgment will be granted as prayed for.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The contract between the parties is, under our jurisprudence, not a sale, but a conditional agreement to sell, not transferring the title, but importing an obligation to make such transfer on compliance with the conditions stipulated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lehman v. Rice
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.