Hogston v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury (1945), Vernon Fire & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Sharp (1976)
7 federal appellate · 65 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 Trist v. Child · Alexander Marshall v. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company · Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co. v. Kidd · State v. Mutual Life Insurance · Howard v. Adkins
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Without minimizing the importance of the doctrine that contracts should not be enforced if they contravene public policy, many courts have cautioned against recklessness in condemning contracts as being in violation of public policy. Public policy, some courts have said, is a term of vague and uncertain meaning. ...'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“What the public policy of a state is must be determined from a consideration of its Constitution, its statutes, the practice of its officers in the course of administration, and the decisions of its court of last resort.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] contract is not void as against public policy [on the basis of its illegality] unless the contract itself ... is forbidden by law, or its consideration is illegal or immoral.”
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.