Bentley v. Robson’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1925
10 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 Vyne v. Glenn · Meech v. Lee · Cribbs v. Sowle · Miller v. Minor Lumber Co. · Benedict v. Roome
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record shows the learned circuit judge was justified by the record in most of his findings of fact. It is impossible to read the record' without coming to the conclusion that Mrs. Bentley understood when she gave the mortgage that her husband was in the custody of the officers, and that to save him from being conveyed to jail it was necessary for him to give the mortgage which she executed. It was this motive which actuated her to make it. There is nothing in the record to indicate it would have been made had she not believed it would have this effect. The ease comes clearly within the principles established by the following decisions (citing cases). The court was right in holding. the mortgage was tainted with duress. It is now said, even conceding the mortgage was obtained by duress, it was ratified after the duress had passed by making payments upon it, and by attempting to have it discounted. The conclusion we reach from the record is that the wife and family did all that was done in the expectation and belief that it was necessary to be done to save Mr. Bentley from being imprisoned as the result of his criminal act. What was done after the mortgage was given was in the same line as the giving of the mortgage, prompted by the same motive, expecting to bring about the same result.””
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.