Larson v. Lesser’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2015
21 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 Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same · Al Williams v. State of Arkansas · Le Roy Brazee v. People of the State of Michigan · Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. v. Wisconsin ex rel. City of Milwaukee · Prior v. White
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while there is no such thing as an absolute freedom of contract, nevertheless, freedom is the general rule and restraint is the exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“some sound basis of necessity to protect the public morals, health, safety or welfare.”
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.