Pope v. Hanke’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 1993 · most notably 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge (1993), 77 Ill. App. 3d 136 - Champagnie v. WE O'Neil Construction Co. (1979)
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPope v. Hanke
Relationships
Relies on Irwin v. Williar · Vallett v. Parker · Hill v. Spear · Pearce v. Foote · Schneider v. Turner
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Admitting that the Turkish government was willing that its officers should be allowed to take commissions on contracts obtained for it by their influence, that is no reason why the courts of the United States should enforce them. Contracts permissible by other countries are not enforceable in our courts, if they contravene our laws, our morality, or our policy. The contract in suit was made in this country, and its validity must be determined by our laws. But bad it been made in Turkey, and were it valid there, it would meet with the same reprobation when brought before our courts for enforcement. The general rule undoubtedly is that the validity of a contract is to be decided by the law of the place where it is made, unless it is to be performed in another country; but to this, as to all general rules, there are exeej)tions, and among these Story mentions contracts made in a foreign country to promote or reward the commission of crime, to corrupt or evade the due administration of justice, to cheat public agents, or to affect the public rights, and other contracts which in their nature are founded in moral turpitude, and are inconsistent with the good order and solid interest of society. ‘All such contracts,’ he adds, ‘even although they might be held valid in a country where they are made, would be held void elsewhere, or at least ought to be, if the dictates of Christian morality or even of natural justice are allowed to have their due force and influence in the administr”
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.