Jenkins v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably McGill v. Bison Fast Freight, Inc. (1957), Bradford v. Kelly (1963)
35 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 Dobias v. White · Snyder v. Kenan Oil Co. · Davis v. Rhodes · Williams Ex Rel. Williams v. Union County Hospital Ass'n · Hester v. Horton Motor Lines
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A completed compromise and settlement fairly made between persons' legally competent to contract and having the authority to do so with respect to the subject matter of the compromise, and supported by sufficient consideration, operates as a merger of, and bars all right to recover on, the claim or right of action included therein, as would a judgment duly entered in an action between said persons.”
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.