Jessee v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 8 Va. App. 19 - Derby v. Derby (1989), Shuttleworth, Ruloff & Giordano, P.C. v. Nutter (1997)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Wallihan v. Hughes · Mullins v. Mingo Lime & Lumber Co. · Valjar, Inc. v. Maritime Terminals, Inc. · Jackson v. Seymour · Owens v. Owens
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law looks with favor upon the making of contracts between competent parties upon valid consideration and for lawful purposes, and “courts are averse to holding contracts unenforceable on the ground of public policy unless their illegality is clear and certain.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts cannot relieve one of the consequences of a contract merely because it was unwise. “They are not guardians in general to the people at large but where inadequacy of price is such as to shock their conscience, equity is alert to seize upon the slightest circumstance indicative of fraud, either actual or constructive.””
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.