Black v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1971
9 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 McClurkin v. McClurkin · Nelson v. Brown · Kirby v. Arnold · Cleere v. Cleere · Yarbrough v. Harris
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In these circumstances there is an absence of any of these technical relations from which the relation of trust and confidence is presumed by law to arise, and, if such relation existed, it was one of fact, and the burden of proving it rested upon the complainant, who asserted its existence. Nelson v. Brown (Brown v. Nelson), 164 Ala. 397 , 51 So. 360 . * * *” ( 217 Ala. 136 , 115 So. 20 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Harris
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.