Graves v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2000
15 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 Booe v. Vinson · McDonald v. Rankin · Archer v. Palmer · Union Trust Company v. Madigan · Parker v. Wilson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Cases as to the good faith required are illustrated by such authorities as Patton v. Taylor, 144 Ark. 254 , 222 S. W. 49 ; McDonald v. Rankin, 92 Ark. 173 , 122 S.W. 88 ; Foltz v. Alford, 102 Ark. 191 , 143 S.W. 905 , Ann.Cas. 1914A, 236. "One chargeable with notice as to the kind of title he holds certainly may not, under the foregoing authorities make such improvements as will impair the title in fee."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vernon v. McEntire“"It can serve no beneficial purpose or interest to enter upon any extended discussions of these matters as her estate must fail in the event she did not make the improvements under color of title or in event that she did not make them in that good faith within the meaning of that expression as defined."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vernon v. McEntire
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.