Waite v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2009
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Irwin v. Williar · Embrey v. Jemison · Schneider v. Turner · Crawford v. Spencer · Pope v. Hanke
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Hjowever perfect the likeness of a gambling transaction to the form and features of a legitimate [transaction], the legality of the dealings between the parties must rest ultimately -upon their honest intention. Illegality is seldom guilty of the consummate folly of flaunting its defiance of law in the face of public sentiment, -of furnishing itself the evidence of its violation of law. To escape the penalties of breaking the law, it will always put on the ‘suits and trappings’ of honest transactions. Mere wagering contracts invariably wear the garb of bona fide [transactions].... The courts have always sought to pierce the disguise and ascertain the real intention of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neve v. Davis
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.