STONE, CHAIRMAN v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1998
11 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 Poe v. Seaborn · 23 Cal. 2d 754 - Tomaier v. Tomaier · Hopkins v. Bacon · Ryals v. Douglas · Vining v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he following principles are recognized and declared by this court: If one buys land in the name of another and pays the consideration therefor, the land will be held by the grantee in trust for the benefit of him who advances the purchase money; ... The foundation of trust in such cases is that the property really belongs to him whose funds have paid for it... . Property rights are not lost simple[sic] because property is transported into another state and exchanged there for other property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“half of the purchase price of the minerals was the property of Mrs. Sample, then a trust resulted in favor of Mrs. Sample and he holds title in trust to her one-half interest... . Here, she was owner by virtue of the community laws of Texas... . The source of her title, or ownership, is immaterial. ... . The commission invokes the rule that real property is controlled by the law of its situs. That, of course, is true. This is not an effort to transport the Texas community law into this state. The title of Mrs. Sample to a half interest in the property in Mississippi does not result from application of the community law of Texas to the real property in Mississippi. The trusteeship comes about as a result of using her money in the purchase of the property regardless, as above stated, how and where she acquired title to the money. (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“About the year 1940 Sample purchased certain mineral rights in this State. He was then, and for many years had been, a married man and a resident citizen of Texas. The money used by him in purchasing the mineral interests belonged in equal parts to himself and his wife as community property under the laws of Texas. The conveyances were to Sample alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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