Meskell v. Meskell’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. (1979), 9 Mass. App. Ct. 412 - Markell v. Sidney B. Pfeifer Foundation, Inc. (1980)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 Barry v. Covich · Samia v. Central Oil Co. of Worcester · Howe v. Howe · Quinn v. Quinn · Comstock v. Livingston
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A resulting trust typically arises when a transfer of property is made to one person and the purchase price is paid by another; in such a case a trust results in favor of the person who furnished the consideration.”
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.