Page v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 district · 648 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 684 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably M.D.C./Wood, Inc. v. Mortimer (1994), People v. Garner (1991)
4 federal appellate · 18 district · 648 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co. · Linley v. Hanson · People v. McKenna · Sinclair v. . Purdy
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 684 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so clearly erroneous as not to find support in the record.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) where an express trust fails in whole or in part; (2) where an express trust is fully performed without exhausting the trust estate; (3) where property is purchased and the purchase price is paid by one person and at his direction the vendor conveys the property to another person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When property has been acquired in such circumstances that the holder of legal title may not in good conscience retain the beneficial interest, equity converts him into a trustee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.