Creswell v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2019
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Perkins Oil Company of Delaware v. Fitzgerald · Missouri Pacific Transportation Co. v. Robinson · Wilson v. Southwest Casualty Ins. Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A release like any other contract, must be supported by some consideration”. Golf Shaft & Block Co. v. O’Keefe, 1940, 200 Ark. 529 , 139 S.W.2d 691 , 693. “Lack of consideration, misrepresentation amounting to fraud, and also duress may be shown to set aside a release, and these are questions of fact”. Creswell v. Keith, 1961, 233 Ark. 407 , 344 S.W.2d 854 , 855.”
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.