Martin v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2017
7 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 Holley v. Mayor of New York
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever is a party to an unlawful contract, if he hath once paid the money stipulated to be paid in pursuance thereof, he shall not have the help of a court to fetch it back again. You shall not have a right of action where you come into a court of justice in this unclean manner to recover it back.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“parties to a contract malum in se , whether it be executory or executed, whether the action be brought on the contract or to recover the consideration, are denied all remedy by the Courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is a marked distinction between contracts which are malum in se , and those which are merely malum prohibitum .”
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.