Potts v. Moran's Executors’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 1949
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Key v. Alexander · Puterbaugh v. Puterbaugh · McCarty v. Lingham · Crenshaw v. Williams · Greenberg v. Ray
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here no bad faith on the part of Moran was charged or proved. On the contrary, he evinced his good faith by an offer in his answer to convey the land and deduct therefrom the value of his wife’s inchoate right of dower, and to pay Potts all the expense to which he had been put. All that we have is the wife’s refusal to join in the deed.*’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kramer v. Mobley““After an examination of the decisions of this and”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kramer v. Mobley
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.