Foltz v. Struxness’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Equifax Services, Inc. v. Hitz (1990), New Castle Orthopedic Associates v. Burns (1978)
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 50 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 Heckard v. Park · Edgecomb v. Edmonston · New England Tree Expert Co. v. Russell · Granger v. Craven · Wilson v. Gamble
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of courts to sustain the legality of contracts in whole or in part when fairly entered into, when reasonably possible to do so, rather than to seek loopholes and technical legal grounds for defeating their intended purpose.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to an extent necessary to carry out the protective intent of the agreement....”
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.