Kirkham v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1977
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McGuigan v. Gaines · Murphy v. Osborne · Goerke v. Rodgers · Bell v. Castelberry · Polk v. Brown
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the outset it must be recognized that the law is firmly established that to justify the setting aside of a deed for failure of consideration, the evidence of such failure must be clear, cogent and convincing. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. Bryant · Prentice v. Cox
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.