Adams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably Ravenscroft v. Ravenscroft (1979), Davis v. Roberts (1956)
44 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 Suhre v. Busch · Ambruster v. Ambruster · Gerace v. Gerace · Byrne v. Byrne · Walker v. Eller
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the Walker ease last cited accords with the equities in the present suit and states the rule that we should follow. This conclusion is not in harmony with the intimation in Carver v. Coffman, 109 Ind. 547, 549 , 10 N. E. 567, 569 , and Cole v. Johnson, 53 Miss. 94, 102 , that color of title is necessary to entitle a bona fide claimant to an accounting in partition for improvements made or taxes paid. But we can see no reason why such relief should be restricted to the holder of a supposed paper title or color of title. If, as all the cases say, the rule is fotmded on equitable considerations why should it not extend to equitable titles? The appellant in this case was no trespasser. He had provided a home for his father, mother, two sisters and respondent’s deceased, husband.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. Steward“(1) The showing must be consistent with an intent to create a trust for his own benefit. (2) The presumed or supposed intent must have existed at the time the [alleged trustee] acquired title. (3) The money advanced by [the cestui] at the time and subsequently must have been paid with that purpose, and not as a loan or gift to the parents. (4) If money were loaned no resulting trust can arise even though it was understood the [trustee’s] title should be held for the benefit of [the cestui] as security for the money advanced by him, or even on an agreement to share in the [benefits].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Merideth v. Merideth“The facts of the instant case force us to the conclusion that the Chancellor was right in refusing to decree a resulting trust in favor of appellant. The evidence was not of the clear and convincing character required by our law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shelby v. Shelby
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.