Grayson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1987
14 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 McDonald, Adm'r v. Strawn · Muskogee Electric Traction Co. v. Reed · Long v. Anderson · Miller v. Folsom · Swindler v. Selby
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person entirely without understanding has no power to make a contract of any kind, but lie is liable for the reasonable value of things furnished to him necessary to his support or the support of his family.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where a grantor in a deed is incapable of comprehending that the effect of the deed when executed and delivered would be to divest such grantor of title to the land described in such deed, said grantor is as to such deed entirely without understanding within the meaning of Section 4981, Comp. St. 1921 (sec. 9402, O. S. 1931, 15 Okla. St. Ann. sec. 22), and the deed is void and conveys no rights to the grantee or subsequent purchasers or incumbrancers in good faith.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Channell v. Jones
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.