Etheridge v. Hammer’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1997
7 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 Parker v. Blakeley · Purvis v. Hardin · Ferguson v. Robinson · Young v. Kansas City Life Insurance · Gates Hotel Co. v. C. R. H. Davis Real Estate Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the owner of an interest in land transfers it inter vivos to another upon an oral trust in favor of a third person or upon an oral agreement to convey the land to a third person, and the trust or agreement is unenforceable because of the Statute of Frauds and the transferee refuses to perform the trust or agreement, he holds the interest upon a constructive trust for the third person, if, but only if, (a) the transferee by fraud, duress or undue influence induced the transferor not to create an enforceable interest in the third person, or (b) the transferee at the time of the transfer was in a confidential relation to the transferor, or (c) the transfer was made by the trans-feror in contemplation of death.”
2 later decisions 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.