Sanger v. Dun’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1953
2 federal appellate · 12 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will not do for a man to enter into a contract, and, when called upon to respond to its obligations, to say that he did not read it when he signed it, or did not know wkat it contained. If this wore permitted, contracts would not be worth the paper on which they are written. But such is not the law. A contractor must stand hy the words oí his contract; and, if he will not read what he signs, he alone is responsible for his omission.””
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.