King v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1986
12 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 Mobile & Cedar Point R. R. v. Talman & Ralstons · Brantley v. West · Boyd v. Harrison · Harrison v. Boyd · Lewis v. Moorman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the debtor instrumental in their contrivance and execution, they are as operative, as if they were not' infected by fraud. He is estopped, as are his heirs, or those claiming merely in succession to him, from disputing their validity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perkins v. Perkins
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.