Stallard v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1972
3 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 Williamson v. Jones · Goodman v. Winter · Rice v. Boyer · International Land Co. v. Marshall · Spencer v. . Carr
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.
“Here, the infant falsely represented himself to have attained Ms majority, Ms appearance confirmed it, and he was in fact holding himself out to the community by Ms conduct in attending to all Ms business transactions just as an adult would; and, in the transaction in question, the false statements of Ms brother and himself were made to induce the creditor to believe that he was of age and forego the collection of Ms debt by legal process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If an infant is old and cunning enough to contrive and carry on a fraud, in a court of equity he should make satisfaction for it.”
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.