Parsons v. . Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 1962 · most notably Wright v. . Bank of the Metropolis (1888), 2 E.H. Smith 382 - Todd v. . Gamble (1896)
4 federal appellate · 39 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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no proof that such paper as this contract called for is not usually to be found in the market, or that it could not, in the small quantity required, be delivered in a few days by manufacturers. All defendants did was to go to dealers in paper a day or two after the 2d day of June, and try to buy paper like that which plaintiffs were to deliver; and they could find none. It does not appear that they made any further efforts. It does not appear that they could not find paper which would answer substantially the purpose. Xo reason is given why they did not try more than once to find the paper.””
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.