Gordon v. Munn’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1969 · most notably Estate of Johnson v. Johnson (1969), Hoard v. Jones (1925)
2 district · 29 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 Cooper v. Reynolds · McCormick v. McCormick · Hafer v. Hafer · Durant v. . Abendroth · Hansford v. Hansford
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the intended wife is competent to make a contract and has a fair and adequate knowledge concerning the future husband’s property when she enters into an antenuptial agreement, which is free from deceit or fraud, it should not be set aside merely because the court or jury find that the provision made for her is in great disproportion to his property.” (Syl. ¶ 5.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The purchaser of land in possession under an agreement for a conveyance is considered the owner in equity, subject to the payment of the purchase money, and the vendor is treated as the trustee of the legal title. * * * The fact that possession was not transferred in this instance may be accounted for by the relationship of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In many of the cases holding that such an agreement thus remaining unexecuted does not bar the widow’s dower or inheritance, the inexperience of the wife, her want of adequate knowledge of the husband’s property or other equitable considerations appear to have influenced the judgment.” (Gordon v. Munn, 87 Kan. 624, 633 , 125 Pac. 1 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gordon v. Munn
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.