Whitcomb v. Gans’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Jordan v. Natrona Lumber Co. (1938), McGuinn v. Federated Mines & Milling Co. (1911)
4 federal appellate · 23 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 Williams v. Vanderbilt · Dougherty-Moss Lumber Co. v. Churchill · Carey-Lombard Lumber Co. v. Jones · Schmalz v. . Mead · Winslow Bros. v. McCully Stone Mason Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““She [the lessor] not only consented to the making of the improvements, but she bound the lessee to do so, and expressly agreed to pay for same by deducting the cost thereof from the rent.””
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.