Callicott v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1972
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Sheldon v. Pruessner · Crowns v. Forest Land Co. · Drexler v. Tyrrell · Stilwell v. Corwin · Flood v. . Dooley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the cases, cited in support of the decision are eases in which the consideration of the contract, as between the parties themselves, was either illegal or contravened the policy of the law. In the case before the court, however, there was nothing illegal in the contract as between the parties. It was a contract they were not prohibited from making, and tiiere was a full and complete consideration for it. The only taint in the transaction was the intended fraud upon the revenue laws of the state. For this intended fraud the court upheld the mortgagor in refusing payment of the mortgage. They upheld him in a monstrous injustice, when the revenue laws of the state provided proper and ample punishment for an evasion of them by criminal prosecution. The decision is regarded as wrong in principle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alter v. Clark“•‘It has never been recognized as authority outside of its boundaries so far as we have been abb; to discover: on the contrary, it has been severely and justly erifieized'in other jurisdictions, and is regarded as wrong in principle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alter v. Clark“‘•tVe do not think the decision rests upon sound reason or good law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alter v. Clark
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.