Price's v. Barham’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1997
15 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 Miller v. Wills · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Mosby · Huff v. Welch · Thornton v. Thornton's Executors · Bunkley v. Commonwealth
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The degree of capacity necessary to make a bilateral contract, where mind clashes with mind, is probably a little greater than that required for a unilateral contract, or a will, but, if a party has sufficient mental capacity to understand the nature of and effect of the transaction, to assent to its provisions, and to know that his act is irrevocable, his contract is valid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Owing to the difference in the facts, one case affords but little aid in arriving at a correct conclusion in another. Each case must be decided upon its own facts and circumstances.””
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.