Asberry v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2012
12 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 Reusens v. Lawson · Iron Age Publishing Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Bigler v. Baker · Harrison v. Wallton's Ex'or · Ten Eyck v. Manning
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he remaining question is, whether or not an infant can compel specific performance of a contract for the sale of land made with an adult, based on the consideration that he should pay all expenses of the latter at a hospital and maintain him during his natural life, which covenants the infant had performed.”
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.