Babcock v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1993
14 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 Lehman v. Smith · Noem v. Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa · Hood v. Sioux Steel Co. · Wieczorek v. Farmers' Mutual Hail Insurance · Dixson v. Ladd
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of waiver is applicable where one in possession of any right, whether conferred by law or by contract, and with a full knowledge of the material facts, does or forebears the doing of something inconsistent with the exercise of the right. To support the defense of waiver, there must be a showing of a clear, unequivocal and decisive act or acts showing ah intention to relinquish the existing right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ducheneaux v. Miller
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.