Wooley v. Shell Petroleum Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Garcia v. Garcia Ex Rel. Estate of Garcia (1991), Paulos v. Janetakos (1937)
2 district · 66 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 Hooks v. Bridgewater · Winne v. . Winne · Jordan v. Abney, Administrator · Hanner v. Moulton · Eckford v. Knox
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a court is called upon to recognize foreign law, it is bound to consider domestic public policy. Thus perceiving Barney v. Hutchinson [ 25 N.M. 82 , 177 P. 890 ] in its true principle, and viewing the conduct of these children as raising an equity calling for this kind of relief rather than as the technical consideration of an executory contract, the decision constitutes a declaration of Nezv Mexico public policy not to be ignored. “The territorial Supreme Court laid down the rule that ‘the validity of a contract executed in a sister state will be determined by the courts of this jurisdiction according to the laws of such sister state as construed by the highest court of such state, * * * unless such a construction conflicts with some settled policy of this jurisdiction.’ * * * We find no statement of law which requires one jurisdiction to forego its own public policy to maintain that of another.’’ Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Clark's Will“Notwithstanding that the contract to adopt the father of the plaintiff in this case made no mention of property rights of the adopted son, we are satisfied that equity and justice demand the specific performance of the contract, to the end that Frank C. Barney be adjudged the adopted son of Annie C. Hutchinson, and that the right of succession of the appellant, the daughter of Frank C. Barney, be recognized in accordance with the statutes in such cases made and provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`A specific performance of a contract to adopt is impossible after the death of the parties who gave the promise. Equity was driven to the fiction that there had been an adoption. That fiction being indulged, the case was not one of specific performance.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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