121 Ind. App. 294 - Owens v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2005
6 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 Sandage v. Studabaker Bros. Manufacturing Co. · Deming Hotel Co. v. Sisson · 121 Ind. App. 175 - Holtz v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · Richter v. Richter · Huffman v. Rickets
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine which obtains in the great majority of the states is that conveyances of property in consideration of agreements to furnish support are in a class peculiar to themselves, and that ordinarily, if the grantee in such a conveyance repudiates, or substantially fails to perform, his agreement, a cancelation of the conveyance, and a rescission, may properly be decreed.”
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.