De Lappe v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1915
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Where, by contract, one is emplojred by another to work by the day or month, and nothing is said as to the .time of payment for the services to be rendered, his wages are due and may be demanded at the close of each day or .month, as the case may be. We think such services are comprehended within the meaning of the statute relied on, and that, after demand for the amount due, the laborer may maintain his attachment proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Everly
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.