Foster v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2009
18 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 Sample v. Romine · Whittington v. H. T. Cottam Co. · McGehee v. McGehee · Wyoming-Indiana Oil & Gas Co. v. Weston · 122 N.J. Eq. 238 - Cooperstein v. Shapiro
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well-settled doctrine that in all cases the presumption of evidence is in favor of honesty. The law never presumes a wrong — malum non prae-sumitur. In Tuteur v. Chase & Company, 66 Miss. 476 , 6 So. 241 , 4 L.R.A. 832 , it is stated: ‘Fraud is not presumed, but it must be distinctly and satisfactorily proved, either directly or by facts or circumstances from which it may reasonably be inferred.’ McGehee v. McGehee, 227 Miss. 170 , 85 So.2d 799 ; 24 Am.Jur., Fraud and Deceit, Sec. 256, p. 88.”
2 later decisions 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.