Wilcoxson v. Stitt’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 1992 · most notably Treadway v. Western Cotton Oil & Ginning Co. (1932), William Stewart v. Lewis a Griffith W
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 People v. Valencia
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the event of failure to comply with the terms and all the conditions hereof by the party of the second part, the party of the first part shall be released from all obligations, either in law or equity, to convey said property or any part thereof, and the said party of the second part shall forfeit all right thereto, and this agreement shall be void.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the light of "these cases, and we find none to the contrary, we feel constrained to hold that the meaning of the clause under discussion in the agreement in this case, is that such agreement is void only at the election of the plaintiff, who can avoid it or enforce it at his option.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstrong v. Irwin · Cooley v. Call“" The said Daniel [the defendant] hereby agrees, that, should he fail in performing any part of the above covenants, that this contract shall become void, and of no effect; and that said party of the second part [the testator] shall immediately re-enter and take possession of said premises without hindrance or molestation.””
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.