Howe v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Bresnick v. Heath (1935), Attorney General v. Pelletier (1922)
2 federal appellate · 77 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Cohen v. Nagle · McDonough v. O'Niel · Lufkin v. Jakeman · Skehill v. Abbott · Moran v. Somes
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]ithin the well recognized principle of equity jurisprudence . . . where one buys and pays for real estate, but the conveyance of the title is to another, a trust results in favor of the one who pays the consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cavadi v. DeYeso
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.