Stroupe v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1962
17 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 Ware v. Allen · Benton v. . Martin · Speed v. Hollingsworth · Stiebel v. . Grosberg · Linscott v. Moseman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A contract can not be varied .until there is a contract, and there is none until it takes effect. Evidence that a writing purporting to be an agreement is not to take effect until the happening of some event or the ascertainment of some fact may be received, not to contradict the writing, but to show when it took effect, or that it never took effect.” (p. 203.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Little v. Liggett
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.