Flesner v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1952 · most notably Flesner v. Cooper (1917), Fibikowski v. Fibikowski (1939)
1 federal appellate · 34 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 Sheehan v. Sullivan · Cooper v. Flesner · Morgan v. Field · Sanders v. Steele · Stone v. Manning
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The interest of the cestui que trust in a resulting trust is not a mere ‘equity’; it is an equitable estate in the land or other thing of which the legal title is vested in the trustee, and, as such, it may be conveyed, transferred, devised, or otherwise dealt with as property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If from the condition of facts existing, a trust arises or results by operation of law, then it may be valid whether the agreement from which the condition arises be in writing or in parol.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham v. Dunlap
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.