Bodley v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Anadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Panhandle Eastern Corp. (1988), 69 Md. App. 566 - Hamilton v. Caplan (1987)
25 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 People v. . Budd · In Re the Accounting of Brown · Coryell v. Klehm · Read v. Walker · Elliott v. Gordon
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to create an express trust the intention so to do must be evidenced by definite, explicit and unequivocal words, or by circumstances so revealing and compelling as to manifest the intention with all reasonable certainty. It follows, necessarily, that the words or the circumstances must admit of but one interpretation, and no trust is created if the transaction is as consistent with another form of undertaking as with that of a trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levin v. Smith
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.