331 So. 2d 656 - Cone v. Cone’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2007
13 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 Roubicek v. Roubicek · Swendick v. Swendick · Leonard v. Duncan · Matthews v. Matthews · Glover v. Walker
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[E]ven where there are circumstances under which a resulting trust would normally arise, if the property has been paid for by a husband but title has been taken in his wife's name, then `equity takes the position that the normal reasonably inferred intent . . . is an intent to make a gift to the wife.' Bogert, Trusts Trustees , § 459, at 579 (2d ed. 1964)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"`[I]f A pays for land and has it conveyed by absolute deed to B, with the intent of cheating A's creditors, the court will render A no aid in securing the enforcement of the resulting trust which would normally be implied for his benefit. . . .'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`a court of equity will never imply or enforce a trust, springing out of transaction, in which the party seeking to enforce it, has been guilty of fraud or immoral conduct,'”
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.