Givens v. McCray’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1989
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 Kelly v. Hurt · Chase v. Williams · Tatum v. Holliday · Gordon v. O'Neil · State ex rel. Beck v. Yancy
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.
““The mere fact that the property conveyed by deed of trust is sold in gross is not per se sufficient to avoid the sale; and no case that' I am aware of has gone to that length. There must be some attendant fraud, unfair dealing, or abuse by the trustee of the confidence reposed in him, or some resulting injury from a sale, made in this way, in order to obtain the aid of a court of equity to divest a title thus acquired. In the very nature of things some latitude of discretion ought in this regard to be allowed the trustee; indeed the very instrument conferring the power contemplates this, ■and so long as his acts are free from any suspicion or bias, and that discretion is not arbitrarily nor unsoundly exercised, those acts will be exempt from equitable interference.””
1 later decision 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.