Crain v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2020
18 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 Arthur v. Israel · State of Tennessee v. Barton · Johnson v. Darnell · Sisk v. Almon · City of Bentonville v. Browne
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who, with knowledge or notice of the facts, accepts or retains the benefit of a transaction, is estopped to deny the force and validity of the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dupwe v. Wallace“prevent one who accepts the benefit of a judgment or decree from questioning its validity or opposing the enforcement of its terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dupwe v. Wallace“obviously a branch of the rule against assuming inconsistent positions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dupwe v. Wallace
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.