Harris v. . White’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1995 · most notably Blair v. City of Chicago (1906), Birkett v. Columbia Bank (1904)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Fleming v. . the People · Cutler v. . Wright · Holmes v. Broughton · Dykers v. . Townsend · McCulloch v. . Norwood
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordinarily an agreement between two or more that a sum of money or some valuable filing, in contributing which all agreeing take part, .shall become the property of one or .some of them on the happening in the future of an event in the present uncertain;” and, as distinguished from that, a purse, prize, or pru mium is defined to be”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. Clay
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.