Maxwell v. Frazier’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1958
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Reynes v. Dumont · Kilbourn v. Sunderland · Lewis v. Cocks · O'Hara v. Parker · White v. Ladd
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case before us each of the defendants relies upon a separate contract with the plaintiff. There is no privity between them, hut they are claiming on independent demands. Neither defendant is claiming the commission through any privity with the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. Kraft
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.