Arnold v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 1978 · most notably 56 Cal. 2d 329 - Vai v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n (1961), 53 Cal. 2d 512 - Laux v. Freed (1960)
37 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 M'Crea v. Purmort · Hendrick v. Crowley · Hayes v. Shattuck
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the recitals of consideration in written instruments are not conclusive as to the amount or character, or payment of the consideration, when these latter matters are the subject of litigation, evidence of want of consideration, or of a different consideration, is not admissible for the purpose of varying, contradicting and defeating covenants by which rights are expressly vested.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mulholland v. Parker“No fraud, no undue influence, no mistake was averred or sought to be proved.”
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.