Wait v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1928
1 district · 15 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 Pierrepont v. . Barnard
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Such a right, where 'there are no words in the contract showing a limitation of the time of enjoyment, or within which it shall be exercised, is not revocable; nor can it be terminated at the will of the owner or grantee of the land, nor by notice to remove the timber in a i'easonable time.””
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.