Harrell v. Harrell’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2015
8 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 Stokes v. Stokes · Talmadge v. Talmadge · Kimbrough v. Kimbrough · Adderholt v. Adderholt · Merchants National Bank v. Greenwood
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Circumstances may be offered as evidence of an intention (whether or not expressly articulated by each party) that title shall vest in one and beneficial ownership in the other. The scope of such evidence includes all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the transaction. The ultimate inquiry is whether there was, in truth, a mutual understanding, not whether such an understanding was expressed in plain and unambiguous terms. . . . Any evidence which might cast light upon this issue should be admitted to aid the jury in its factual determination. 29”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“appear to sanction hidden trusts, and we must be guided by the law as given by the General Assembly.”
2 later decisions 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.