Mecham v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2006
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 National Motor Service Co. v. Walters · McMinn v. Holley · Burton v. Bayly · Pearson v. Harper · Coe v. Bennett
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.
““It is our view that . . . the obtaining of the $7,000 loan was a condition precedent to obligations arising under the initial receipt and agreement to purchase; such loan not having been obtained the contract was unenforceable.” (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“settle the accounts between the parties,”
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.