Delgado v. Delgado’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2003
17 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 Miller v. Ammon · Frank Waskey v. Joseph Hammer · Gilchrist v. Hatch · Buck v. Walker · Niblack v. Seaberg Hotel Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are aware that the rule above stated is subject to the qualification that when upon a survey of the statute and from its subject-matter, and the mischief sought to be prevented, it appears that the Legislature intended that the violation of the statutory prohibition should not render a contract void, effect must be given to that intention * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ritchey v. Gerard““We think the authorities uniformly hold that an act done in violation of a statutory prohibition is void, and confers no right upon the wrongdoer..””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ritchey v. Gerard
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.