Marx v. Lining’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Cooper v. Johnston (1969), In Re Estate of Peterson (1950)
4 federal appellate · 34 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 Handley v. Shaffer · Prestwood v. Carlton · Sunflower Lumber Co. v. Turner Supply Co. · Knight v. Watson · Ellis v. Batson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is established by a long line of decisions of this court that contracts specifically prohibited by law, or the enforcement of which violates the law, or the making of which violates the laws which were enacted for regulation and protection, as distinguished from a law created solely for revenue purposes, are void and unenforceable. This is the general rule. Ellis v. Batson, 177 Ala. 313, 317 , 58 So. 193 [(1912)]; Sunflower Lumber Co. v. Turner Supply Co., 158 Ala. 191 , 48 So. 510 , 132 Am. St. Rep. 20 [(1909)]; Youngblood v. Birmingham Trust & Sav. Co., 95 Ala. 521 , 12 So. 579 , 20 L.R.A. 58 , 36 Am. St. Rep. 245 [(1892)]; Western Union Tel. Co. v. Young, 138 Ala. 240, 243 , 36 So. 374 [(1903)]; Boyett v. Standard Chemical & Oil Co., 146 Ala. 554 , 41 So. 756 [(1906)]; Bowdoin v. Alabama Chemical Co., 201 Ala. 582 , 79 So. 4 [(1918)]."”
2 later decisions 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.