Nelson v. American Cement Plaster Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1994
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Laffery v. United States Gypsum Co. · St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Madden · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. English · City of Kinsley v. Morse · Whitney v. Brown
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the company which owned the mine and made the contract with Messenger and Jenkins retained outside of the written instrument the right to discharge at will one of the parties to the contract who was evidently a partner of the other, the contractors were not independent, but dependent upon, the company, and the written instrument was not what it purported to be.””
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.