Gest v. Gest’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Pappas v. Pappas (1973), Boretz v. Segar (1938)
1 district · 39 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 Creamer v. Bivert · Dent v. Ferguson · Barnes v. Starr · Ford v. H. W. Dubiskie & Co. · Fox v. Shanley
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.
“grows out of or depends upon or is inseparably connected with (that party's) own prior fraud, a court of equity will, in general, deny (the party) any relief, and will leave (the party) to whatever defenses at law (the party) might have”
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.