Abrams v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably J. H. Morris, Inc. v. Indian Hills, Inc. (1968), 343 So. 2d 495 - Pruitt v. Pruitt (1976)
46 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 Kelly v. Carmichael · Cowee v. . Cornell · Sandlin v. Anders · Oden v. King · Wood v. Estes
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases like the one now under consideration, the courts cannot overlook or be forgetful of the fact that a person of sound mind may dispose of his property as he sees fit, and it is the solemn duty of the court to uphold a conveyance, where understandingly made, by persons of sound mind, although the grantee may be a relative, and the conveyance is wholly voluntary, in the absence of any evidence of undue influence in fact, or the presumption of such arising from the relation of the parties. * *. * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kite v. Head
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.