Reagan v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1989
6 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 Patterson v. Hewitt · Perry v. Strawbridge · Price v. Hitaffer · Eversole v. Eversole · Carpenter's Estate
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although these two sections [23-1-40 and 23-1-18] have been in effect since their adoption in 1880, we appear to have but one case where the question whether they applied to trusts was decided, that of Patterson v. Hewitt, 1901, 11 N.M. 1 , 66 P. 552 , 55 L.R.A. 658 , affirmed, 1904, 195 U.S. 309 , 25 S.Ct. 35 , 49 L.Ed. 214 . This Court said, at pages 39, 40, of 11 N.M., at page 564 of 66 P.: "`* * * It cannot well be said that this section [23-1-4, supra] is alone applicable to actions at law, so as to exclude agreements establishing trusts relations cognizable in courts of equity and it would seem that the section was intended to be broad enough to include equitable actions, for the reason that another provision applies the same limitations to actions for relief upon the ground of fraud, which is a recognized basis for the exercise of equitable jurisdiction. * * * * * * "`This section [23-1-18, supra] does not apply, of course, to all trusts, but it is applicable directly, to trusts other than those where the defendant has "fraudulently concealed the cause of action, or the existence thereof, from the party entitled or having the right thereto." There is no attempt in this case to show that there was any fraudulent concealment of the cause of action, or the existence thereof, from the appellants. * * *' "It is true the Court was there considering an express trust, but we think its statement in the second paragraph above was sound. If it was not intended that actions on co”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trujillo v. Padilla“"None of the provisions of this chapter shall run against causes of actions originating in or arising out of trusts, when the defendant has fraudulently concealed the cause of action, or the existence thereof from the party entitled or having the right thereto."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trujillo v. Padilla
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.