Gault v. Stormont’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1948 · most notably Ryan v. United States (1890), Halsell v. Renfrow and Edwards (1904)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 Hogsett v. Ellis · Dwight v. Cutler · Druse v. Wheeler · Hall v. Soule · Druse v. Wheeler
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“though it specified the purchase price, it failed to express the time or times of payment, and there is no known and recognized custom to fix what is thus left undetermined;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the sum of $75 as part of the principal of $1050 on sale of my house and two lots oil corner of Superior and Second streets 'in this city.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a memorandum, to be sufficient under the statute, must be complete in itself, and leave nothing to rest in parol.”
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.