Wright v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1968 · most notably Ruth v. Rhodes (1947), Murillo v. Hernandez (1955)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 Gaylord v. Gaylord · Willard v. Carrigan · Brown v. Brown · Munford v. Green's Administrator · Butler v. Shumaker
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities are to the effect that in a deed of this character, giving on its face clear indication that an absolute estate was intended to pass either by the recital of a valuable consideration paid, or by an express covenant to warrant and defend the title, no trust would be implied by reason of the fact that no consideration was actually paid. Gaylord v. Gaylord, 150 N.C. 222 , 63 S.E. 1028 . “To the effect that a parol trust may not "be ingrafted on a deed absolute on its face in favor of the grantor as against the grantee, Gaylord v. Gaylord, supra, seems to be decisive * * [ 20 Ariz. 46 , 176 P. 585 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Greer
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.