Ellis v. Sisson’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1920
1 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Sumner v. Waugh · Delano 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “We are satisfied, from the evidence, that outside of this written agreement there was a verbal agreement between Waugh apd Ellis to the purport that if Ellis would sell out to Sisson apd Rathbun, he, Waugh, would accept such sale in satisfaction of the debt of Ellis to Waugh and H. B. Ellis. We think that by-virtue of this agreement, and the transfer of the property, which was made by T. B. Eilis, and the full enjoyment of it ever since by Sisson, Rathbun, and Waugh among them, the notes and mortgage to Waugh and H. B. Ellis were satisfied ; and as those to Sisson are also satisfied, that T. B. Ellis is entitled to the first lien on the property for his paid-in interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cable v. Ellis
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.