Greenville v. Ormand’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1944
1 district · 6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The payment by the city of Greenville to the contractor of the whole amount due under the engineer’s estimate, including the ten per cent reserve, without deducting- the amount due the city for tools and dynamite, which, under the contract the city had the right .to do, was the giving up of a security for the debt sued on upon which the surety had the right to rely.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.