Adams v. Spillyards’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1980
21 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 Block v. Hirsh · Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman · Bush v. Martineau · Kennedy v. Chase · Stanley v. Gates
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The laws which are in force at the time when, and the place where, a contract is made and to be performed enter into and form a part of it. This is only another way of saying that parties are conclusively presumed to contract with reference to existing law.”
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.