LaForce v. Bracken’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Rhoades v. Miller (1967), Royalty v. Nicholson (1967)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Bicocchi v. Casey-Swasey Co. · Callaghan v. Estate of Grenet · Brown v. Cates · Stevens v. Cobern · Hughes v. Hughes
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any agreement of the grantee to hold the land in trust and to reeonvey it to the fraudulent grantor cannot be enforced, because the courts will not aid a party in carrying out a fraud; and the court will not give a fraudulent grantor or anyone claiming under him any relief from his own fraudulent act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.