Stubblefield v. Husband’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1980 · most notably Hamilton v. Steininger (1943), Hedrick v. Hedrick (1943)
23 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 Employers Indemnity Corp. v. Garrett · Dougherty v. Dougherty · Branner v. Klaber · Weissenfels v. Cable · Proctor v. Nance
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is impossible to view the circumstances pointed out by appellant, as carrying the proof-power prescribed by law to set aside a deed or other solemn instrument in equity. In such circumstances, whatever the specific grounds, whether the establishment of a trust or the showing of fraud and deceit in the procuring of a deed, or any other impeaching method, the rule is, without exception, that the proof to justify such action on the part of the court must be so clear, convincing, and complete as to exclude any reasonable doubt in the mind of the chancellor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Platt v. Platt“must go beyond a mere preponderance of the testimony and remove all reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hedrick v. Hedrick
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.