Scurry v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2002
9 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 Trustees of Jesse Parker Williams Hospital v. Nisbet · DeNieff v. Howell · Dover v. Burns · Brumbelow v. Hopkins · Werner v. Rawson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“undue,” and thus render the transaction void, the influence exerted must be such to deprive a party "of his free agency by substituting for his will that of another.”
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.