Welcome v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Reid v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. (1989), Kulawitz v. Pacific Woodenware & Paper Co. (1944)
7 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Respini v. Porta · Ladd & Bush v. Smith · Marseilles v. Kerr
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[WJhile it is said that a surrender by operation of law is by acts which imply mutual consent, it is quite evident that such result is independent of the intention of the parties that their acts shall have that effect. It is by way of estop-pel.”
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.