Wells v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2004
24 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 Ellis v. Berry · Bell v. Oates · Milam v. Paxton · Anding v. Davis · Stephens v. Duckworth
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that in claims of this type the burden is on the claimant to establish by clear and convincing evidence the services were rendered pursuant to an understanding, express or implied. Bell v. Oates, 97 Miss. 790 , 53 So. 491 . . . . ( 199 Miss. at 335 , 24 So.2d at 536 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the agreement includes both realty and personalty, the transaction is not separable”
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.