Sanders v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably 329 So. 2d 437 - Louisiana State Bar Association v. Edwins (1976), 452 So. 2d 1161 - Succession of Lyons (1984)
2 federal appellate · 100 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 American Guaranty Co. v. Sunset Realty & Planting Co. · Garnier v. Aetna Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn. · Strauss v. Insurance Co. of North America · Mente & Co. v. Roane Sugars, Inc. · Succession of Block
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the jurisprudence of this court it has been said that the charge of fraud is a most serious one; that one who alleges fraud has the burden of establishing it by legal and convincing evidence since fraud is never presumed, and that to establish the fraud exceptionally strong proof must be adduced * * * It has also been said that evidence showing that fraud was probable or that the circumstances partook of a suspicious character is not sufficient, and that the fraud must be established by proof stronger than the more preponderance of the evidence * * *"”
15 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnston v. Bearden · Orr v. Walker“Bank accounts may be established in the name of two or more persons. One of the important questions which arises in such cases is as 110to the ownership of the funds. It is obvious that the depositors may own the funds in common.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.