Cox v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2018
4 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 128 Cal. App. 284 - Hill v. General Petroleum Corp. · Filtsch v. Bishop · Standard Lumber Co. v. Deer Park Lumber Co. · Norris v. Van Handel · Clifford v. Wilcox
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 general rule is: “Where a contract has been voluntarily, understandingly, and fairly entered into, and is free from fraud, accident, mistake, or any other circumstance recognized as a ground for equitable relief, a court of equity must, when its jurisdiction is properly invoked, give full force and effect to such contract; it cannot ignore, disturb, or alter the rights created by it, or grant relief against their enforcement.” 30 C.J.S., Equity; § 62, p. 411. The fact that for one of the parties the contract is unwise or improvident, or that its enforcement is harsh when it was so intended to be, does not alter the rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A power of attorney which, in effect, is a mere contract of agency is revocable at the will of the principal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hold v. Bentley
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.