Broughton v. Broughton’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1958 · most notably Gibson v. Crawford (1932), Turpin's Administrator v. Stringer (1929)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Doty's Adm'r v. Doty's Guardian · Boone v. Coe · Skinner v. Rasche · Benge v. Hiatt's Adm'r · Duke's Admr. v. Crump
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such claims are thus upheld, but to be enforceable they must clearly be founded on contract and established by convincing proof. So many opportunities are afforded for the spoliation of estates, it is so easy for unscrupulous persons to fabricate evidence after the death of the testator, and it is so hard to meet that character of proof, and a casual conversation, expression of intention, or invitation may so easily be misconstrued and distorted into an agreement, that in the absence of such a rule it would be dangerous for a person to exercise generosity or hospitality or to accept any sort of service of this character, without a thorough understanding that he was incurring no liability therefor. In the present case there is nothing in the record to show any fabrication of fact or attempted spoliation, and the above reference to those matters is only for the purpose of illustrating the reason for the rule, as it applies in all cases.””
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.