Geisey v. Holberg’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2005
20 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 Duckett v. National Mechanics' Bank · Bachrach v. Washington United Cooperative, Inc. · Albert v. Hamilton · Swift v. Williams · National Union Bank v. Miller Rubber 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fraud cannot be easily proved by direct evidence because of the secrecy with which it generally is surrounded, but a court of equity cannot close its eyes to a series of circumstances, all pointing one way, indicating one purpose in view.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.