Sewell v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1966
9 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 Seals v. Robinson & Co. · Smith v. Smith · Reeves v. Abercrombie · Parish v. Gates · Goldsby v. Goldsby
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Sewell v. Holley, 189 Ala. 121 , 66 So. 506, 508 , it is said: ‘Loose declarations of trust and casual conversation derogatory of the grantee’s title, have not been regarded as possessing much probative force in cases like this, even when proven to have been made; while the unsatisfactory and unreliable character of evidence of verbal statements easy to be misunderstood and difficult to be accurately reproduced, is everywhere recognized by those accustomed to deciding controverted ' questions of fact, particularly when given long after the event and without motive to impress the conversation upon the memory.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingles v. Greear
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.