Pottlitzer v. Wesson’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1942
21 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 Landwerlen v. Wheeler · Day v. . Pool · Preston v. Grant · Wickwire v. Town of Angola · Stone v. Lewman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(Letter) : ‘Gentlemen — Enclosed you will find our check on Hamilton National Bank in settlement for car of bananas shipped here and held here subject to your order, which we have sold for your account.’ “(Invoice, omitting figures) : ‘Sirs — We herewith hand you account sales of 550 bunches bananas received May 19, 1891, and'enclose you check for $550.70, net proceeds of same. We trust the same will prove satisfactory and to hear from you again. We remain, etc.””
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.