James v. Golden’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1946
10 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 Farmer v. Hampton · Northup's Trustees v. Sumner's Trustees · Bullock v. Harrison · Coomes Bros. v. Grigsby & Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is the rule in this jurisdiction that we will not reverse the judgment of the chancellor on a mere matter of the credibility of the witnesses, or where, under the evidence as a whole, the truth of the matter involved is doubtful, we have, however, often held that though the chancellor’s judgment is entitled to some weight, we. will weigh and judge of the sufficiency of the evidence for ourselves, and where it is found to preponderate for one side or the other in such a way as to convince us that the chancellor erred, his judgment will be reversed. Farmer v. Hampton, 154 Ky. 83 ; Coomes Bros. v. Grigsby & Co., et al., 151 Ky. 394 ; Bullock v. Harrison, 145 Ky. 358 ; Northup’s Trustees v. Summer’s; Trustees, 132 Ky. 156 ; Powell, et al. v. Union Grocery Co., 113 S. W. 912 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farmer v. Cornett
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.