Douglas v. Ogle’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Gardiner v. Goertner (1932), Perper v. Edell (1948)
12 federal appellate · 52 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 Allore v. Jewell · Simpson v. First National Bank of Pensacola · Holland v. Barnes · 45 N.J. Eq. 413 - Wilkinson v. Sherman · Burke v. Taylor
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere weakness of mind, unaccompanied by any other inequitable incident, if the person has sufficient intelligence to understand the nature of the transaction and is left to act upon his own free will, is not a sufficient ground to set aside an agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]nadequacy of consideration, coupled with such a degree of mental weakness as would justify the inference that advantage had been taken of that weakness, [would] furnish sufficient ground for equitable interference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.