Nugen v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · 162 W. Va. 925 - Kanawha Valley Bank v. Friend · 157 W. Va. 866 - Dorsey v. Short · 166 W. Va. 304 - Marshall v. Marshall
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A presumption of constructive fraud may arise in .connection with joint bank accounts with survivorship, if the parties to the joint account occupy a fiduciary or confidential! • relationship.-, This presumption requires the person who benefits from the creation of the account to bear the burden of proving that the funds were, in fact, a bona fide gift.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.