Mays v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2009
13 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 Jenkins v. Lane · Jones v. Robinson · Dowling v. Doyle · Brown v. Doane · Broadwell v. Smith
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a trust which is implied whenever the circumstances are such that the person holding legal title to property, either from fraud or otherwise, cannot enjoy the beneficial interest in the property without violating some established principle of equity. Such a trust is”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Edwards“[I]n order for such a promise to be the basis of a constructive trust it must have been made with the intention of being broken and for the purpose of thereby obtaining title....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Edwards“can never be applied when there is nothing more than a broken verbal promise (otherwise the statute of frauds would be virtually abrogated)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Edwards
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.