Methodist Orphans' Home Ass'n v. Sharp's’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1940
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Cottage Street Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kendall · George v. Harris · Congregational Society in Troy v. Perry · Workman v. Campbell · Comstock v. Howd
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.
“For the purpose of liquidating a debt of thirty-seven hundred dollars against the Methodist Orphans' Home of this city (St. Louis), we, the undersigned, agree to pay the amount placed opposite our names, upon the following condition, to-wit: It is hereby expressly agreed and understood that no subscription, nor any part thereof, shall be deemed due, payable, or collectible, until the whole sum of $3,700 shall have been raised or subscribed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“They (the subscriptions) are honorable obligations, but they cannot be enforced, for want of a consideration. . . . The Methodist Orphans' Home had already contracted this debt when the subscription was made.”
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.