Cunningham v. Friendly’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
June 1928
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cooper v. Thomason · Henry v. Harker · Jennings v. Trummer · Patton v. Women of Woodcraft · Jaeger v. Harr
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff was not employed to find a purchaser for the lots and to bring the purchaser and seller together. . . . Plaintiff relies upon the fact that he brought Rocky and Friendly together, but that does not bring plaintiff within his contract to sell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any woman residing out of the state shall be entitled to dower of the lands of her deceased husband lying in this state of which her husband died seised.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woolsey v. Draper
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.