Fulton v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
January 1936
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wight v. Rindshopf · Melchoir v. McCarty · Barnard v. Backhaus · Ætna Insurance v. Harvey · Everingham v. Meighan
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine is perfectly well settled ‘that all contracts which are repugnant to justice, or founded upon an immoral consideration, or which are against the policy of the common law, or contrary to the provisions of any statute, are void/ and courts will not lend their aid to enforce them. Melchoir v. McCarty, 31 Wis. 252 ; Ætna Ins. Co. v. Harvey, 11 Wis. 394 ; Hill v. Sherwood, 3 Wis. 343 ; Wight v. Rindskopf, 43 Wis. 344 ; Barnard v. Backhaus, 52 Wis. 593 ; Everingham v. Meighan, 55 Wis. 354 ; Wiggin v. Bush, 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 306; Bell v. Leggett, 7 N. Y. 176 ; Dalrymple v. Hillenbrand, 62 N. Y. 5 ; Rice v. Maxwell, 13 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 289.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beat v. Mickelson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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