Foster v. Bauman’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1981
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 Alvin Johns v. James Wilson · Holmes v. Bennett
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evident intent of the law was to protect purchasers on the partial payment plan from harsh and inequitable forfeitures heretofore so prevalent, but we think such protection was intended for those purchasers who have parted with money, or its equivaent, to the immediate benefit or enrichment of the seller. . . . The benevolent intention of the law is to protect the purchaser, who under the partial payment plan often is unable to protect himself, and not to give him an undue and unreasonable advantage of the seller.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whalley v. George
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.