Matheson v. Gullickson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1996
18 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 Gupton v. Gupton · Svanburg v. Fosseen · 12 N.J. Eq. 142 - Vanduyne v. Vreeland · Duvale v. Duvale · Duvale v. Duvale
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court in the exercise of its equity jurisdiction may render ... relief for the preservation of the rights of the prom-isee under an oral contract to bequeath the property left at the promisor’s death to protect the promisee against loss from the promisor’s breach or threatened breach of contract, and for this purpose the court may impress the promisor’s property with a trust in favor of the promisee, subject, however, to the rights of the promisor to consume or dispose of such property during his life except insofar as a disposition thereof may be a fraud upon the promisee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Church““* * * Their application, * * * is difficult and involves a careful consideration of the total effect of the combination of facts and circumstances peculiar to each case. In doing equity, a common factual denominator for the reconciliation of all cases is out of the question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'BRIEN v. Demeules
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.