Spencer v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Kirk v. Culley (1927), 94 Cal. App. 703 - May v. Farrell (1928)
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Head v. Hargrave · Forsyth v. Doolittle · Krasky v. Wollpert · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Wallace · Noftzger v. Moffett
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases other than those specified in the next two (2) sections the contract of a minor, if made whilst he is under the age of eighteen (18), may be disaffirmed by the minor himself, either before his majority or within a reasonable time afterwards; or, in case of his death within that period, by his heirs or personal representatives; and if the contract be made by the minor whilst he is over the age of eighteen (18), it may be disaffirmed in like manner upon restoring the consideration to the party from whom it was received, or paying its equivalent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Stites“No specific language is required to communicate an intent to disaffirm. 'A contract (or conveyance) of a minor may be avoided by any act or declaration disclosing an unequivocal intent to repudiate its binding force and effect.' Express notice to the other party is unnecessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.