Crain v. Crain’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 1936
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boone v. Coe · Dean v. Cassiday · Bobbitt v. James
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He must pay a reasonable price for such valuable and lasting improvements as were placed on the land by the grantee while in good faith relying upon his verbal contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vogel v. Massey
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.