Clark v. Colbert’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2000
18 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 Inhabitants of Worcester v. Eaton · Myers v. Meinrath · Black v. Oliver · Garrott v. Fuller · Denton v. English
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law will leave all who share in the guilt of an illegal or immoral transaction where it finds them, and will neither lend its aid to enforce the contract while executory, ndr to rescind it and recover back the consideration when executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Dunn
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.