Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1975
16 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 Sills v. Sills · Haney v. Legg · Marshall v. Marshall · Adams v. Griffin · Crittenden v. Crittenden
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * It is settled that a resulting .trust will be decreed in favor of the wife where the husband invests her money in real and personal property .and takes title in his own name. * * Furthermore where the wife pays for .the property and the title is taken in the name of the husband, there is no presumption of a gift. Marshall v. Marshall, 243 Ala. 169 , 8 So.2d 843 ; Adams v. Griffin, 253 Ala. 371 , 45 So.2d 22 .” Wilson v. Wilson, 257 Ala. 135, 137 , 57 So.2d 519, 520 . The right to a resulting trust “is founded on the presumption that he who pays the purchase money intends to become the owner of the land, and therefore presupposes the authorized use of the money of him who asserts the trust, and is implied independent of any fraud or of any fiduciary relation between the person who pays the money and him in whose name the title is taken, although the mere existence of such relation will not prevent the implication of such a trust. * * *” Haney v. Legg, 129 Ala. 619, 624 , 30 So. 34 , 35, 87 Am.St.Rep. 81 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lámar v. Lámar · Henslee v. Merritt
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.