Edwards v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 15 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although each party sought to prove that he or she was the sole owner, the record compels the inference that they intended to share ownership. For example, Edwards supplied the funds for the down payment, while Woods testified that she made the payments on the deed of trust. The trial court could and did infer that each intended to receive some vested property interest in return for his or her contributions. The record, however, fails to support the trial court’s finding that the parties did not intend to establish a resulting trust.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Leeks v. Leeks

2. “the appellee may, without taking a cross-appeal, urge in support of a decree any matter appearing in the record, although his argument may involve an attack upon the reasoning of the lower court or an insistence upon matter overlooked or ignored by it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Goodman v. District of Columbia Rental Housing Commission

3. “A resulting trust is a property relationship designed to effectuate the parties' intent when one party takes title to property for which another has furnished the consideration.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brenda Zanders v. Richard Baker & Brenda Zanders v. Gordon Thomas