Trimble v. Wollman’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1980
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Hardin v. Boyd · Johnson—Brinkman Commission Co. v. Central Bank · Wiggins Ferry Co v. Ohio M Ry Co · Telegraph Company v. Davenport Telegraph Company · Johnson-Brinkman Commission Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an election is in the nature of an estoppel, and unless it is shown by the record of a final judgment or contains the elements of an estoppel in pais , owing to intervening rights, it will not conclude the party against whom it is invoked,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warren v. . Susman
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.