Chance v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1962
1 district · 19 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 Ransdel v. Moore · Kendrick v.Ray · Conn. River Savings Bank v. Albee · Barger v. Barger · Chase v. Perley
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a strong circumstance against the existence of a trust that he transferred it to the man and wife, instead of to either of them alone. If a trust was intended, it is most likely that he would have bestowed the title upon the one alone best qualified to manage the same successfully, and no good reason is suggested why the confidential estate should be vested in the daughter and her husband together. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sweek v. Bennett““The plaintiffs called as their first witness the defendant Marion C. Young, thereby vouching for his credibility.””
1 later decision 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.