Webb v. Vercoe’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Viner v. Untrecht (1945), 18 Cal. 2d 302 - Watson v. Poore (1941)
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 Graffam v. Burgess · Title Ins. and Trust Co. v. Ingersoll · Cooney v. Glynn · Bradley Co. v. Bradley · Lauricella v. Lauricella
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.
““Testing the sufficiency of the transaction as one creating a resulting trust and, therefore, one which need not be in writing, we are able to appeal to a long line of decisions in this state to the effect that a transaction such as the one here under consideration will be properly denominated a loan by defendant to plaintiff, and a taking by defendant of the legal title to the property in controversy as security-for repayment thereof, and the repudiation of this relation by the defendant a legal fraud giving rise to a resulting trust in the property.” (Webb v. Vercoe, 201 Cal. 754, 760 [54 A. L. R. 1200, 258 Pac. 1099, 1101 ]; O’Rourke v. Skellenger, 169 Cal. 270 [ 146 Pac. 633 ]; Brown v. Spencer, 163 Cal. 589 [ 126 Pac. 493 ].)”
1 later decision 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.