McCormick v. Brevig’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Blazer v. Wall (2008), H-D Irrigating, Inc. v. Kimble Properties, Inc. (2000)
29 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 Steer, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · Carbon County v. Union Reserve Coal Co., Inc. · Bruner v. Yellowstone County · D'AGOSTINO v. Swanson · In Re the Estate of Lien
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the owner of property makes a conveyance inter vivos of the property to another person to be file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/cu1046/Desktop/opinions/99-302%20Opinion.htm (8 of 12)4/2/2007 11:20:03 AM file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/cu1046/Desktop/opinions/99-302%20Opinion.htm held by him in trust for a third person and the conveyance is not effective to transfer the property, no trust of the property is created.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“some further indication of the grantor's intent to divest himself of valuable real property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no proper conveyance into the trust of trust property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.