Trader v. Jester’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2015
19 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 Caminetti v. United States · United States v. Jin Fuey Moy · Worthen Co Board of Com'rs of Street Improvement Dist No 513 of Little Rock Ark v. Kavanaugh · 21 Del. Ch. 391 - Keller v. Wilson Co. Inc. · Van Winkle v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well established that the laws in force at the time and place of making the contract enter into, and form a part of it as if they had been expressly referred to, or incorporated in, its terms. The obligation of the contract is measured by the standard of the laws existing at the time of the making of the contract. 12 Am.Jur. 14; TV. B. Worthen Co. v. Kavanaugh, 295 U.S. 56 , 55 S.Ct. 555 , 79 L.Ed. 1298 , 97 A.L.R. 905 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koval v. Peoples““A headnote is, in no proper sense, a title. In some sense it is an index. Plainly, where the language of the Act itself is clear and unambiguous, resort may not be had to a headnote to a section to create an ambiguity, and thereby to furnish a reason for supplying an alleged omission.” Trader v. Jester, 1 Terry (40 Del.) 66, 1 A. 2d 609, 613 . '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Moreover, the obligation of a contract is impaired by a statute which alters its terms by imposing new conditions, or releases or lessens any part of the contract obligation, and the extent of the impairment is immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.