Duclos v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1978
10 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 El Dorado Ice & Planing Mill Co. v. Kinard · Hogan v. Richardson · Bracy v. Miller · Killingsworth v. Tatum
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contract here sought to be enforced recites that it was executed upon a consideration of $1 in hand paid, and if there were no other consideration the rule above quoted would apply. We think, however, that it appears from the recitals of the contract, above quoted, that there were other considerations moving the parties to the contract. Duelos assumed the obligation recited, which suffices to constitute a valid consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Jones““A contract which leaves it entirely optional with one of the parties as to whether or not he will perform his promise is not binding upon the other.””
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.