Kreamer v. Earl’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Carter v. Seaboard Finance Co. (1949), Fewel & Dawes, Inc. v. Pratt (1941)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Valentine v. Stewart · Damrell v. Meyer · Manley v. Cunningham · Brake v. Ballou · McGregor v. Donelly
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity will not allow itself to become a handmaid of iniquity of any kind. It intervenes, not for the sake of the party who is benefited by the intervention, but for the sake of the law itself. It matters not that no objection is made by either party; when the court discovers a fact which indicates that the contract is illegal and ought not to be enforced, it will, of its own motion, instigate an inquiry in relation thereto.” (See 17 C.J.S. 659, § 272.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no doubt that the contract contravenes the spirit and policy of the land laws of this state.... It is not necessary that the act itself, or any other act, should declare in express words such a contract to be void. If, upon a review of all the state legislation upon the subject, such a contract appears to contravene the design and policy of the laws, a court of equity will not enforce it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`No court will lend its aid to give effect to a contract which is illegal, whether it violate the common or statute law, either expressly or by implication'”
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.