Laird v. Vila’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1954
22 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 Kofka v. Rosicky · 10 N.J. Eq. 332 - Johnson v. Hubbell · Carmichael v. Carmichael · Ahrens v. . Jones · Svanburg v. Fosseen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the proof to sustain such an agreement must in all particulars be clear, positive, and convincing. The necessity of requiring a strict degree of proof to establish an issue of this character is too patent to warrant extended elaboration.”
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.