Clair v. Colmes’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. (1934), Shea v. Shea (1936)
21 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 McIntyre v. Kavanaugh · Crawford v. Burke · Chapman v. Forsyth · Upshur v. Briscoe · Noble v. Hammond
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language would seem to apply only to a debt created by a person who was already a fiduciary when the debt was created.”
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.