Ensign v. Coffelt’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1969
15 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 Ozan Lumber Company v. Union County National Bank of Liberty Indiana · John Woods Sons v. Frank Carl · Tucker v. West · Wyatt v. Wallace · Edwards v. Randle
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It is well settled, we think, that, if a contract is based upon several considerations, some of which are merely insufficient and not illegal, it is not void but may be upheld by the consideration which is sufficient; but if one of several considerations of an entire contract, as a note, is illegal, the whole contract is void. In other words, where the contract is entire, and a part of the consideration thereof is illegal, and the illegal portion is not separable from the whole consideration, then the whole contract is unenforceable. 1 Parsons on Contracts, § 455; 1 Daniel on Negotiable Instruments, § 204; Edwards v. Randall, 63 Ark. 318 ; Hanauer v. Gray, 25 Ark. 350 ; Tucker v. West, 29 Ark. 386 ; Kizer v. Texarkana & F. S. Ry. Co., 66 Ark. 348 .””
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.