West v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1946
4 federal appellate · 11 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 Chapin v. Dake · Mallett v. Butcher
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Agricultural societies, stock and other associations organized for the purpose, and having for tlieir object, among others, the improvement of domestic animals, and to induce competition and rivalry in their importation and development, may offer premiums or purses to exhibitors of such animals, without being guilty of violating the Criminal Code. On the other hand, the law will not tolerate any shift or device upon the part of any association or individual whereby, under the pretense of bettering the condition or developing and improving the stock, gambling is intended or permitted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. Clay““ When a judgment had been obtained at law, upon a promissory note given for money won at gaming, it was held, upon bill filed by the master, under section 135 of the act, that the judgment was void, and it was accordingly set aside. (Mallet v. Butcher et al., 41 Ill. 382 .) It was there said: ‘ It was the intention of the legislature to make all judgments, like the contracts on which they are founded, absolutely void, of no vitality, and they can not be vitalised, by any court””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Nohe““We should, perhaps, notice the contention of counsel for appellant, that sections 131 and 135 of the criminal code can have no application to judgments unless rendered by confession; that is, these sections of the statute, in their application to judgments, affect only such as result directly from the voluntary act of the defendant, and not adversary judgments. We are not prepared to so restrict the operation of the statute,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Nohe
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.