Groover v. Darden’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably First Virginia Bankshares v. Benson (1977), McNeil v. Hadden (1954)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 Sumners v. Jordan · Vinson v. Vinson · First Nat. Bank v. Bonner · Smith-Howard Gin Co. v. Ogletree · Love v. Rennie
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A conveyance of land obtained for a grossly inadequate consideration by unfair advantage taken of great mental weakness, though not amounting to absolute incapacity of the grantor, will in equity be set aside on equitable terms when application therefor is made seasonably by the grantor, his representatives or heirs. Walling v. Thomas, 133 Ala. 426 , 31 So. 982 . Gross inadequacy of consideration, when coupled with other facts strongly tending to show fraud or undue advantage, is a suspicious circumstance. Burke v. Taylor, 94 Ala. 530 , 10 So. 129 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Rodda““ * * * Fraud is a conclusion of law from facts stated and proved. When it is pleaded, either at law or in equity, the facts out of which it is supposed to arise must be stated; a mere general averment, without such facts, will not suffice. * *”
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.