Ferrell v. Wiswell’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2020
4 federal appellate · 7 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no right to overlook the wholesome rule that where deeds or contracts are sought to be vacated and set aside upon the ground of fraud and deceit, the burden of proving the alleged fraud is upon him who asserts it; moreover, that the fraud must be established by clear and convincing evidence. While fraud need not necessarily be established by direct evidence, yet from all the evidence, whether direct or circumstantial, it must be made to appear with reasonable clearness that the act in question was induced by fraud or deceit in order to authorize relief in an action of this kind.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Moore · Lane v. Peterson
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.