Wharton v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably 174 Ind. App. 439 - Bassett v. Glock (1977), 8 Cal. 2d 82 - Ales v. Ryan (1936)
4 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Hearns v. Waterbury Hospital · Adams v. University Hospital · Parks v. Northwestern University · Downes v. Harper Hospital · Gable v. Sisters of St. Francis
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The same rule applies where the plaintiff has paid for the services rendered, where the amount received was not for private gain, but to more effectively accomplish the purposes for which the charity was founded.””
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.