Paton v. Baugh’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1978
2 federal appellate · 4 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 McMurry v. Stanley · Dulin v. Moore · Beckham v. Beckham
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No particular formula is required to create a trust. Wherever in a will a person is directed to carry out certain provisions for the benefit of another, and if this cannot be done, except the legal title to property is vested in such person, he will be deemed to be invested with the legal title for purposes of the trust, and a trust will arise by implication, although there may be no direct devise of the legal title of the property involved.””
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.