Swan v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 1939
most recently cited
1 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wimberly v. Winstock · Crisp v. Gillespey, Sheriff · Potts v. Rubesam · Latimer v. Giles · Webster v. Clopeck Fish Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not necessary that fraud should be established by direct proof; for such purpose it was competent to resort to circumstantial or presumptive evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Manning
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.