Mayor v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1941
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sanford v. Huxford · City of Detroit v. Detroit Railway · Van Dyke v. Davis · Macomber v. Cottrell · Macomber v. Cottrell
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a principle well established that the compromise and settlement of an asserted claim involved in legal controversy, be it never so doubtful, constitutes a sufficient consideration for the settlement, and for any obligations given by one party to the other in consideration of such settlement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherman v. Phelps
How this case has been treated — in progress
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