Holt v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2001
4 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 King v. Gant · Brooks v. Yarbrough · Eggstaff v. Phelps · Purcell v. Corder · Pancoast v. Eldridge
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before a court of equity will specifically enforce an oral contract to devise property, the proof of the contract must be so cogent, clear, and forcible as to leave no reasonable doubt as to its terms and character.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... will grant relief, provided the case is free from objection on the ground of inadequacy of consideration and there are no circumstances or conditions which render the claim inequitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crossman v. Reeves“to determine just what evidence has been recognized by the courts as sufficient to meet the [so cogent, clear and forcible as to leave no reasonable doubt] requirement.”
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.