Low v. Low’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 1984 · most notably Starr v. Starr (1974), Fox v. Webb (1958)
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 Johnson v. . Johnson · McGuff v. State · Armour & Co. v. Cartledge · Randolph v. Randolph · Ingram v. State
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.
““Being in possession, when his right is to have an instrument which appears to be a deed cancelled as a cloud upon his title, the essentials of his bill stated in broad terms are the existence of an instrument which appears on its face to be valid and affects his title, but which is not so on account of matter not so appearing, so that it takes evidence •other than that shown by the instrument to prove its invalidity. King v. Artman, 225 Ala. 569 , 144 So. 442 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casey v. Krump
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.