Grumley v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Fire Insurance Ass'n v. Wickham (1891), Palmer v. Chamberlin (1951)
6 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Stackhouse · Thornton v. Irwin · Grant v. . Morse · McNew v. Booth · Lyman v. Clark
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“THU ORDER TO DISMISS. “ Wm. Grumley v. William G. Webb. In the St. Louis Circuit Court. “ On the payment of the costs in this case by defendant, this suit is to be dismissed. (Signed) Sharp & Broadhead. “ St. Louis, March 7, 1865.” THE GENERAD DISCHARGE. “"Received from Wm. G. Webb six thousand five hundred dollars, which is in full satisfaction of a judgment recovered by me against said Webb and David S. Bigham, in the St. Louis Circuit Court, and said sum is in fall satisfaction of all claims and demands I have or hold against said Bigham and Well, or either ox them, * up to this date. (Signed) William Grumlev. “St. Louis, March 7, 1865.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grumley v. Webb
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.