Bartlett v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Ritterbusch v. Sexmith (1950), International Harvester Co. of America v. McAdam (1910)
23 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 Liverpool Steam Co v. Phenix Ins Co · Barnard v. Backhaus · Newman v. Kershaw · Doyle v. Welch · Shores Lumber Co. v. Stitt
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a universal principle that the courts of no state will hold valid any contract which is injurious to the public rights of its people, offends their morals, contravenes their policy, or violates a public law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jezeski v. Jezeski
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.