Converse v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1904
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Vallett v. Parker · Territt v. Bartlett · Pindar v. Barlow
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.
““The statute of this state in force at the time of this transaction prohibited all sales of spirituous liquors, except for certain specified purposes, and by certain persons duly licensed therefor, and imposed a penalty for all acts of selling in contravention of the law, but contained no provisions in reference to the legal effect or binding force of such illegal contracts of sale, or of any securities given for the price of liquors so illegally sold. The English statutes against usury and gaming not only impose a penally for such illegal acts, but expressly declare that all notes, bills, bonds, and oilier securities given upon such illegal considerations, shall be utterly void. All the cases that have been cited, and all that can be, so far as we know, both English and American, upon this subject, turn upon this very distinction and difference between these statutes. In those cases in which Hie legislature have declared that the illegality of the contract or consideration shall make the security, whether bill or note, void, the defendant may insist on such illegality, though the plaintiff, or some other party between him and tbe defendant, took the bill or note bona fide, and gave a valuable consideration for it. But, unless it has been so expressly declared by the legislature, illegality of consideration will he no defense in an action at the suit of a bona fide holder for value, without notice of the illegality/' unless he obtained the note or bill after it became due. Th”
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.