Chesnutt v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1984
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Weil v. Neary · Warnock v. Davis · Harris v. Runnels · Morville v. American Tract Society · Vock v. Vock
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Another distinction is sometimes made in the case of contracts which are simply unauthorized, but involve no moral turpitude and are not expressly forbidden by statute, in which case it has been held that they may be enforced if justice plainly requires it. So, where the contract is merely malum prohibitum and the illegality does not arise from any elements of moral turpitude, a recovery may be had of money or property parted with thereunder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.