Ashley v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that the promisor was already married at the time of making the promises furnishes no defense to an action for a breach of promise, where this fact was unknown to the promisee .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“notwithstanding the fact that he was married to another woman at the time the contract was made, if such fact was unknown to the woman at the time of the engagement .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.