Iden v. Ackerman’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1998
3 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 Little v. Allen · Minor v. London Guarantee & Accident Co. · Loggins v. Stewart · 54 Tex. Civ. App. 354 - Bartlett Oil Mill v. Cappes · O'Fiel v. Janes
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.
“An agreement made in good faith, without fraud, compromising a ... disputed claim to land, is supported by a sufficient consideration, even though such claim is in fact unfounded.... To support a compromise it is not essential that the question in controversy be in fact doubtful in legal contemplation. It is sufficient that there be an actual controversy between the parties of which the issue fairly may be considered by both parties as doubtful and that, at the time of the compromise they in good faith so consider it.”
1 later decision 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.