Tallman v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Republic Power & Service Co. v. Gus Blass Co. (1924), Carter v. Bradley County Road Improvement Districts 1 & 2 (1923)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Coppell v. Hall · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. William Owens · Berka v. Woodward · Brooks v. Cooper · Smith v. Dandridge
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * There is a distinction to be made between a contract which is illegal because its execution requires the performance of an immoral or unlawful act, or transgresses an express statutory prohibition, and one wherein the act to be performed is lawful, but the contract is invalid upon the grounds of public policy alone.””
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.