Brown v. Slaton’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1936
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 Allore v. Jewell · Hoeb v. Maschinot · Miller v. Taylor · Ruffner v. Ridley · McHarry v. Irvin's Ex'r
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.
““Even when parties in good health stand in a confidential relation to each other, the burden is upon the stronger character who procures an advantage to show that the transaction was fair; and relief will be afforded in equity in all such transactions in which influence has been acquired and abused, in which confidence has been reposed and betrayed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bolen v. Watson““It is a well-known rule of law that gross inadequacy of consideration, where the parties are not on equal terms, is regarded as a badge of fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. Fortson
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.