Van Epps v. Redfield’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Burns v. . McCormick (1922), Woolley v. . Stewart (1918)
10 federal appellate · 24 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 Van Epps v. Redfield · State v. Orr · Cone
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the ordinary course of human conduct, be accounted for in any other manner than as having been done in pursuance of a contract.”
3 later decisions 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.