Tobin v. Spann’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1967
17 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 Sims v. Everhardt · Stull v. Harris · Watson v. Billings · Fox v. Drewry · Alvey v. Reed
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.
“The contract of an infant is not void, but only voidable. He is therefore only entitled to a judgment for rents from the date of his disaffirmance of the contract. In this case the disaffirmance was the date of the commencement of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tays v. Johnson
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.