Cohron v. Polk’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 1943
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whelan v. Reilly · State ex rel. Walker v. Dobson · Blount v. Spratt · Lipscomb v. Talbott · Mann v. Doerr
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general, the cancellation of an executed contract is an exertion of the most extraordinary power of a court of equity, which ought not to be exercised except in a clear case, and never for an alleged fraud unless the fraud be made clearly to appear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McConnell v. Deal
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.