Pinkham v. Libbey’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Butterfield v. Byron · Spalding v. . Rosa · Marvel v. Phillips · Yerrington v. Greene and Another, Administrators
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] contract for personal services involving the exercise of individual skill and judgment ... can be performed only by the person named.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.