Young v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005
21 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 Cowan v. Radford Iron Co. · Howeth v. Anderson · Warner v. Hitchins · Jackson ex dem. Harris v. Harris · Ellsworth v. Southern Minnesota Railway Extension 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement to pay money, no time being specified, is held to be an agreement to pay the same on demand....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McComb v. McComb
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.