Scott v. . Battle’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1979
10 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 Harris v. . Jenkins, Public Treasurer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in no case will the law imply a promise on her part, and every one who deals with her is held to do so with a knowledge of her disability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the same reasoning must be a full answer to the defendant's demand upon the plaintiff for the restoration of the purchase money, which she has received and used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Ingram.“Upon principle, too, it seems impossible to conceive that the law will ever permit that to be done indirectly which it forbids to be done directly.”
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.