Cornwell v. Cornwell’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Page v. Clark (1979), Cohen v. Cohen (1980)
3 federal appellate · 11 district · 39 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 Bullock v. Director of Patuxent Institution · Lyman v. Lyman · Rosenblum v. Judson Engineering Corp. · Patey v. Peaslee · Rautenberg v. Munnis
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““between two persons when one has gained the confidence of the other and purports to act or advise with the other’s interest in mind .... [I]t is sufficient that there is a family relationship or other personal relationship of such a character that the transferor is justified in believing that the transferee will act in his interest.” Kachanian v. Kachanian, 100 N.H. 135, 137 , 121 A.2d 566, 568 (1956), quoting 1 A. W. Scott, Trusts § 44.2 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheelen v. Robinson“[A] constructive trust will arise when there has been a conveyance of an estate upon an oral promise to reconvey . . . and the conveyance was . . . made . . . between parties standing in a confidential or fiduciary relationship to each other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheelen v. Robinson
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.