Prichard v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1945
5 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 Gates v. Shutts
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was a true controversy, and the result of it ^ * * no one could predict, and in this state of uncertainty it was entirely competent for the parties to settle the dispute themselves, instead of trying it in court; and no tribunal would have a right to disturb their compromise, unless on satisfactory evidence of mistake, fraud or unconscionable advantage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. Heinzelman
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.