Foster v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Heacock v. Heacock (1988), Cousineau v. Laramee (1983)
8 district · 40 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 Case v. Beauregard · New England Canteen Service, Inc. v. Ashley · Stockbridge v. Mixer · Almeida v. Travelers Insurance · Rioux v. Cronin
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, the claim asserted by the plaintiff in the Probate Court suit was created by the entry of a judgment in his favor against the defendant Philip W. Evans. The plaintiff seeks in this suit to reach Philip W. Evans’s interest in property standing in the name of another who acquired legal title only, without consideration and for the express purpose of defeating the rights of the plaintiff and other creditors. As this court did in Moseley v. Briggs Realty Co., supra, [ 320 Mass. 278 , 69 N.E.2d 7 (1946)] we apply here the period of limitation applicable to the underlying claim, in this case the twenty-year period applicable to actions on judgments. G.L. c. 260, § 1.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) Where a conveyance or obligation is fraudulent as to a creditor, such creditor, when his claim has matured, may, as against any person except a purchaser for fair consideration without knowledge of the fraud at the time of the purchase, or one who has derived title immediately or medi-ately from such a purchaser- (a) Have the conveyance set aside or obligation annulled to the extent necessary to satisfy his claim....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... a plaintiff who has obtained a judgment at law against a debtor, and who alleges that the judgment cannot be satisfied because the debtor has fraudulently transferred his assets to a third party, has stated a case which is cognizable under the general principles of equity jurisprudence.”
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.