Capps v. Hensley’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1968 · most notably Carlile v. National Oil & Development Co. (1921), Carlisle v. National Oil & Dev. Co. (1924)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Stanton v. New York & Eastern Railway Co. · Battelle v. Northwestern Cement & Concrete Pavement Co. · Ellison v. Jackson Water Co. · Schreyer v. Turner Flouring Co. · Pearsoll v. Chapin
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.
““A party to an apparent agreement which is void by reason of fundamental error has more than one course open to him. * * * He is entitled to treat the supposed agreement as void, and is not, as a rule, prejudiced by anything he may Imve done in ignorance of the true state of the facts, yet after that state of facts has come to his knowledge, he may nevertheless elect to treat the agreement as subsisting; or, as it would be more correct to say, he may carry into execution by the light of correct knowledge the former intention which was frustrated by want of the elements necessary to the formation of any valid agreement. It is not that he confirms the original transaction, for there is nothing to confirm, but he enters into a new one.””
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.