Owens v. Capri’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1990
2 district · 21 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 Riley v. Chambers · 74 Cal. App. 765 - Wise v. Radis · Massie v. Dudley · Kenney v. Paterson Milk & Cream Co. · Woods & Co. v. Armstrong
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although we recognize the apparent hardships sometimes resulting, this court has held that courts will not aid the party to enforce an agreement made in furtherance of acts expressly made illegal by statute. Kennedy v. Lonabaugh, 19 Wyo. 352 , 117 P. 1079 , Ann.Cas. 1913E, 133; Seamonds v. School Dist. No. 14, 51 Wyo. 477 , 68 P.2d 149 . "`The law refuses to enforce illegal contracts as a rule, not out of regard for the party objecting, nor from any wish to protect his interest, but from reasons of public policy.' Camp v. Bruce, 96 Va. 521, 524 , 31 S.E. 901 , 43 L.R.A. 146 , 70 Am.St.Rep. 873 ; 2 Elliott on Contracts, Section 1064."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"But under a statute enacted in exercise of the police power of the state expressly making unlawful a single isolated act of an unlicensed real estate broker in negotiating a sale, selling, or buying real estate, the decisions appear to be practically unanimous in holding that no compensation can be recovered under such circumstances by an unlicensed person." 202 P.2d at 177 .”
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.