Stelling v. Stelling’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1976
11 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 Kingsbury v. Burnside · Dorman v. Dorman · Bruce v. Roney · Mayfield v. Forsyth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person seeking to establish a resulting trust must show clearly and without question that his money paid all, or some definite proportion, of the purchase price of a definite tract of land, the title of which was taken in another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Mayo
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.