Pratt v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1983
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Padgett v. Silver Lake Park Corp. · Vanzant, Jones & Co. v. Arnold, Hamilton & Johnson · Toole v. Wiregrass Development Co. · Ulman, Magill & Jordan Woolen Co. v. Magill · Sally v. Bank of Union
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a contract is made in one State to be performed in another, the laws of the latter State will govern as to the validity, nature, obligation, and construction of the contract, where they are duly pleaded and proved, and such laws will be enforced by comity in this State unless they are contrary to public policy or prejudicial to the interests of this State.”
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.