Edwards County v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Fuqua, Hinkle & Davis v. Pabst Brewing Co. (1897), Williams v. Williams (1978)
6 federal appellate · 85 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.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot say which of these considerations most affected the mind of Jennings, and induced his promise; nor are there any means of ascertaining how much of his obligation was based upon the illegal consideration. The rule is well settled, upon principal and authority, that a promise made upon several considerations, one of which is unlawful, no matter whether the illegality be at common law or by statute, is void” —citing many cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hendricks v. Wall
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.