Slack v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Pascale v. Pascale (1988), Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp. (1939)
3 federal appellate · 90 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * as it is to afford him protection against the consequences of voluntary action on his part, induced by the existence of the relationship between them [the donor and donee], the effect of which upon his own interests he may only partially understand or appreciate.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where parties hold positions in which one is more or less dependent upon the other, courts of equity hold that the weaker party must be protected, and they set aside his gifts if he had not proper advice, independently of the other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Fulper · Rhodes v. Ries“Hall v. Otterson, 7 Dick. Ch. Rep. 528; S.C. , on appeal, 8 Dick. Ch. Rep. 695.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.