Perry v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 15 state decisions

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

1. “". . . where a defaulting trustee has first commingled the trust funds with his own and then paid them out in satisfaction of his own debts, it will be presumed that the payment was made from his own contribution to the commingled fund, `and not out of the trust money,' so that whatever is left is the money for which he is accountable in his fiduciary capacity. Lolordo v. Lacy, 337 Mo. 1097 , 88 S. W.2d 353, 358 ; Cross v. Cross, 362 Mo. 1098 , 246 S.W.2d 801, 803 ." Perry v. Perry, 484 S.W.2d 257, 259 (Mo.1972).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 358 F. Supp. 317 - Universal CIT Credit Corp. v. Farmers Bank of Portageville

2. “It is a settled maxim that equity, once having acquired jurisdiction of a cause, will not relinquish it without doing full and effective justice between the parties, even though, to right the wrong complained of, resort must be had to a remedy within the traditional province of law, as by a judgment for money by way of restitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kopp v. Franks