Crowell v. Parks’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Jones v. Abraham (2000), McDonald Ex Rel. Estate of Petty v. Petty (1973)
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 Fred v. Asbury · Williams v. Williams · Jensen v. Housley, Administrator · Naylor v. Shelton · Hinkle v. Hinkle
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * the evidence ‘clearly establishes the fact that plaintiff went to live with his uncle under an agreement that the latter was to convey the property to him in consideration of the care and attention to be bestowed during the latter’s lifetime, and that plaintiff occupied the premises pursuant to that agreement and made substantial improvements,’ and further said, ‘In order to assume the obligations imposed upon him by the contract, he made an entire change in his surroundings and changed his occupation and place of residence.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Robinson
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.