Swords v. Occident Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2013
11 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 Raymond v. Blancgrass · Murray v. Heinze · Glass v. Basin & Bay State Mining Co. · Fincher v. Bennett · San Bernardino Investment Co. v. Merrill
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right [citing cases] and implies necessarily that the right was in existence at the time it is claimed to have been waived. [Citing cases] ””
1 later decision 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.