Addison v. Tessier’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Montano v. Saavedra (1962), Transwestern Pipe Line Company v. Yandell (1961)
47 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 Washington Times Co. v. Bonner · Chandler v. Battenfield · Powell v. Langford · Koger v. A. T. Woods, Inc. · Thompson v. Dale
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to create estoppel by acceptance of benefits it is essential that the person against whom estoppel is claimed, should have acted with full knowledge of the facts and of his rights, * * * ””
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.