Gonzalez v. Trujillo’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2011
6 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 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Beazley · 135 So. 2d 252 - Schaal v. Race
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle that courts will not enforce illegal contracts is well established.... [T]here can be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal. Indeed, there rests upon the courts the affirmative duty of refusing to sustain that which by the valid laws of the state, statutory or organic, has been declared repugnant to public policy. To do otherwise would be for the law to aid in its own undoing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“injurious to the interests of the public, or contravenes some established interest of society.”
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.