Morgan v. Eversole’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While it is true that transactions between husband and wife will be closely scrutinized where the rights of creditors are involved, we find in the record no facts from which it could be reasonably inferred that Clark Eversole executed the title bond for the fraudulent purpose of cheating his creditors, or that Mrs. Eversole knew of such fraudulent purpose. On the contrary, the evidence makes it clear that the bond for title was executed for a valuable consideration actually paid by Mrs. Eversole, and that the sum so paid was used in a lawful enterprise. Under the circumstances, the transfer and title bond were not fraudulent as to creditors. Taylor, et al. v. Cooley, et al., 49 S. W. 355 ; McCandless v. Rea, et al., 56 S. W. 10 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. National Exchange Bank v. Venable