Barkley v. Barkley’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2006
23 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 Clark v. Jeffersonville Railroad · Thompson v. Peck · Booher v. Goldsborough · Hart v. Scott · Studabaker. v. Faylor
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled that where the mental incompetency of the one who has made the conveyance or other contract is known to the other at the time it was made no allegation of a tender or offer to restore the consideration is a necessary averment of the complaint. (Citing authorities.) Such knowledge destroys good faith and when coupled with want of or gross inadequacy of consideration establishes fraud.””
2 later decisions 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.