Worthy v. . Caddell’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Doe on the Dem. of Lassiter v. Davis
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The party assuming to be a purchaser for valuable consideration must prove a fair consideration, not up to the full price, but a price paid which would not cause surprise or make any one exclaim, `He got the property for nothing; there must have been some fraud or contrivance about it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hodges v. . Wilson
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.