Philpot v. Gruninger’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 570 · 1871
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1998 · most notably Fire Insurance Ass'n v. Wickham (1891), McGovern v. . City of New York (1923)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Willard v. Presbury
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a clear distinction sometimes between the motive that may induce to entering into a contract and the consideration of the contract. Nothing is consideration that is not regarded as such by both parties. It is the price voluntarily paid for a promissor’s undertaking. An expectation of results often leads to the formation of a contract, but neither the expectation nor the result is ‘the cause or meritorious occasion requiring a mutual recompense in fact or in law.’ ” |”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be to make a contract for the parties to which their minds never assented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.