Ross v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 1961
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. Maxwell Motor Co. · City of Richmond v. Davis · Doughten v. Vandever · Cannon v. Stephens · George v. Braddock
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The said lands are hereby declared to be held by the said William L. Price, Frank Martin and George F. Stephens upon the following trusts and upon them only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broeker v. Ware
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.