Dalton v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.2d 494 · 1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1989
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Crow v. Beardsley · First Nat. Bank v. Conway Road Estates Co. · Hargadine v. Henderson · Grand Boulevard Inv. Co. v. Strauss
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether an instrument be an assignment or a mortgage, if a surplus remains in the hands of the trustee, after the purposes of the trust have been discharged, it will go to the grantor, in whose favor a resulting trust for such excess will be implied, although it not be expressed in the conveyance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webster v. Wishon
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.