Little v. Mettee’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably Simmons v. Friday (1949), Davis v. Roberts (1956)
24 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 Ambruster v. Ambruster · Russell v. Sharp · Case v. Sipes · Sanford v. Van Pelt · Paramore v. Lindsey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Fraud, actual or constructive, is an essential element in the creation or existence of a constructive trust. Young v. Kansas City Life Ins. Co., 329 Mo. 130 , 43 S.W.(2d) 1046 ; Norton v. Norton (Mo.Sup.) 43 S.W.(2d) 1024 ; Ferguson v. Robinson, 258 Mo. 113 , 167 S.W. 447 ; 65 C.J. p. 455. Defendants had no knowledge, either actual or constructive, of plaintiff’s right or interest, if any, and there • is no showing upon which they can be charged with fraud, either actual or constructive, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A resulting trust, as distinguished from an express trust, is one implied by law from the acts and conduct of the parties and the facts and circumstances which at the time exist and attend the transaction out of which it arises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. James“that the statute of limitations does not run between the trustee and the cestui que trust as long as the trust subsists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simmons v. Friday
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.