Potts v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1981
9 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 Thomas v. Blair · Pulford v. Dimmick · Bowlus v. Whatley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The conveyance upon its face purports to be for a consideration, and the burden rested upon plaintiffs to prove that it was gratuitous, and that the donor had not reserved enough for her sustenance, and not having produced such proof, their demand to have the conveyance annulled must be refused.””
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.