Rees v. Schmits’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2006
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Chicago, Vermilion & Wilmington Coal Co. · Crichfield v. Bermudez Asphalt Paving Co. · Spaids v. Barrett · Doane v. Chicago City Railway Co. · Evans v. Funk
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• “Moral duress consists in imposition, oppression, undue .influence, or the taking of undue advantage of the business or financial stress or extreme necessities or weakness of another; the theory under which relief is granted being that the party profiting thereby has received money, property or other advantage, which in equity and good conscience he ought not to be permitted to retain. ’ ’”
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.