Jefferson v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1968
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The construction of the road to the ocean was no part of the consideration of the note; the findings negative the averment of the answer that the note was given ‘upon the express condition’ that the railroad should be completed within ninety days. The matters relied upon, to be available as a defense, must be shown to have been a condition agreed upon by the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jefferson v. Hewitt
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.