Kollock v. Scribner’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1961 · most notably Harrigan v. Gilchrist (1904), Mathews v. Sniggs (1919)
32 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Cunningham v. Pattee · Tracy v. . Albany Exchange Co. · Ranlet v. Cook · W. Trans. Co. of Buffalo v. . Lansing · Abeel & Abeel v. Radcliff
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the agreement for a renewal contains language other than that appropriate to a general promise, so that by resort to the settled rules for construction the language of the covenant to renew and conditions of the renewal cannot be made certain, then such covenant fails for want of certainty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ratcliff v. Aspros
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.