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Bowden v. Teague’s Empirical Analysis

1963

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
August 2016
most recently cited

Relationships

Relies on Badham v. Johnston · Holt v. Wilson · Bowden v. Teague

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “One who has a bare expectancy or hope of acquiring property in the future, with no present interest therein, cannot create a present trust in such property.... An expectation or hope of receiving property in the future cannot be held in trust.”
    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.