Gragg v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2020
2 federal appellate · 13 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 O. K. Boiler & Welding Co. v. Minnetonka Lumber Co. · Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. Thornburgh · McKeel v. Mercer · Watson v. American Creosote Works, Inc. · Dobbins v. Texas Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each member of a joint venture acts for himself as principal and as agent for the other members within the general scope of the enterprise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Performance of ... obligations a party already is legally bound to perform, is not sufficient consideration to support a contract.”
1 later decision 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.