Harrell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1942 · most notably Seals v. Robinson & Co. (1883), Gordon, Rankin & Co. v. Tweedy (1883)
33 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 Crawford v. Kirksey · Hubbard v. Allen · Johnston v. Glasscock · Montgomery's Executors v. Kirksey · Hamersly v. Lambert
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, fraud is never presumed — that it must be proved by clear and satisfactory evidence, and when a transaction is susceptible fairly of two constructions, the one which will support and free it from the imputation of impurity of intention will be adopted. Fraud, like.crime, may nevertheless be proved by circumstances — it is seldom capable of being proved otherwise — and the number or character of the circumstances which may amount to proof of it can not be defined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Clear evidence of ability to make the purchase is vital to sustain the transaction against creditors, whose right to appropriate the property of the grantor to the satisfaction of their demands is clear, and founded on law and good conscience.””
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.