Culver v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1944
9 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 Jefferson v. Winkler · Truskett v. Closser · Scott v. Brakel · Hook v. Hoffman · McKeever v. Carter
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 921, Rev. Laws 1910 (5014, C. O. S. 1921) defines the object of a contract as: ‘The thing which it is agreed, on the part of the party receiving the consideration, to do or not to do.’ And by section 925 (5018, C. O. S. 1921) it is provided: ‘Where a contract has several distinct objects, of which one at least is lawful and one at least is unlawful in whole or in part, the contract is void as to the latter, and valid as to the rest.’ Numerous authorities are cited in 9 Oyc. 565, to support the proposition as therein stated as follows: ‘The rule is that a lawful promise made for a lawful consideration, is not invalid merely because an unlawful promise was made at the same time and for the same consideration.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.