Berkey v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2012
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant contends the contract was without consideration. The point is not well taken. The contract as written contains mutual promises, and it is fundamental that the consideration for a promise may be a return promise. (Restatement of the Law of Contracts, § 75.) . . . We see nothing in the contract as written, or as enlarged by the finding of the court, which renders the contract illegal or void, as against public policy, nor as tending to show that the consideration was insufficient. (A. L. I. Restatement, Contracts, §§83,84.)” (p. 795.)”
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.