Franklin v. Colley’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1948
2 federal appellate · 15 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No trust concerning lands except such as may arise by implication of law shall be created, unless in writing signed by the party creating the same, or by his attorney thereto lawfully authorized in writing.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Mere words can no longer, under our statutes, create a trust unless such words be in writing. But, so far as the foregoing statutes are concerned, trusts may still be created by operation of law (not a word being in writing) as freely as ever. None of the foregoing statutes are intended to operate as a limitation, restriction, or prohibition upon the creation of what are known as resulting trusts, implied trusts, or constructive trusts. Such statutes are simply intended (so far as they apply to trusts) as a limitation or restriction upon the creation of express trusts. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yeager v. Yeager
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.