Wardell v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 1989 · most notably Martens v. Reilly (1901), Spivey v. Saner-Ragley Lumber Co. (1926)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Carr v. Duval · Chamberlain v. Dow · Bean v. Burbank · Chapman v. Morgan · Maynard v. Tabor
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary for us to decide in this case whether a verbal acceptance would be binding when there was nothing to be done'by the purchaser except the payment of the purchase money, for' the reason that in this case something more was required.” Page 62.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Ives““This being so, there were terms which the parties have never agreed upon, and upon which their minds have never met, so as to make a completed contract, and before it was concluded the defendant withdrew altogether and refused to complete it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walsh v. Oakman““Either party has the right to withdraw from pending negotiations for the sale of real property, where no consideration has passed, no rights intervened, and the conditions of the parties have not changed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Couch v. McCoy
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.