Ross v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 1967 · most notably In Re Estate of Cover (1922), 9 Cal. 2d 409 - Herbert v. Lankershim (1937)
41 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 Richmond Appeal from Probate · Ford v. Hennessy · In re Welsh · 47 N.J. Eq. 135 - Pironi v. Corrigan · Connor v. Stanley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is inflexible that no one who holds a confidential relation towards another shall take advantage of that relation in favor of himself, or deal with the other upon terms of his own making; that in every such transaction between persons standing in that relation the law will presume that he who held an influence over the other exercised it unduly to his advantage;” and that transactions of this character will not he upheld unless it be shown that the grantor had independent advice, and that his act "was not only the result of his own volition, but that he both understood the act he was doing, and comprehended its results and effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.