Cleere v. Cleere’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 1986
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 M'Cormick v. Malin · Hays v. Cockrell · Cowan & Co. v. Sapp · Singleton, Hunt & Co. v. Thomas · Tankersly v. Pettis
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though mere inadequacy of consideration, ordinarily, is not sufficient to annul and set aside a contract, when the parties are in a situation to exercise independent judgment in determining its value, and to act knowingly and intentionally; and though it furnishes no ground for the interference of equity, which in such case leaves the parties to the consequences of their own improvidence; yet the inadequacy may be so gross as to furnish ‘the most vehement presumption of fraud,’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Campbell
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.