Stephenson v. Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Swon v. Huddleston (1955), Stacy v. Burke (1970)
47 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 In re Estate of Soulard · Jones v. McGonigle · Banking House of Wilcoxson & Co. v. Rood · Hall v. Farmers & Merchants' Bank · Rollestone v. National Bank of Commerce
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor is it necessary that the declaration of such a trust be contained in the instrument which transfers the legal title. The trust may be set out in one or several instruments executed’ at other times than that of the transfer of title, provided they show the existence of the trust when construed together.””
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.