Sweinhart v. Bamberger’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1984
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 Maynard v. Hill · 8 Ohio Op. 5 - Fearon v. Treanor · Gray v. . Hook · Cooper v. Bower · Haviland v. . Halstead
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the original contract is illegal, a claim thereon has no color of right and forbearance to sue upon or surrender of it does not constitute sufficient consideration for a subsequent agreement. In other words, a promise to do anything as a compromise or satisfaction of an illegal bargain is itself illegal. Were the rule otherwise, the parties could by their private agreement waive the illegality and evade the prohibition against the original contract.””
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.