Kaplan v. Suher’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Marine Contractors Co. Inc. v. Hurley (1974), Northern Heel Corp. v. Compo Industries, Inc. (1988)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Voigt · Dawe v. Morris · Masline v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Soule v. . Bon Ami Company · Graham v. Middleby
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The circumstances that a private contract may be improvident or hard, or prompted by motives on one side or the other perhaps not commendable in the forum of conscience, do not alone constitute ground for refusal to enforce an agreement intelligently and freely made by competent parties standing on an equal footing and by them put under seal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sparne v. Altshuler
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.