Lyons v. Berlau’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2015
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Walker's Administrator v. Deaver · Colorado Coal & Iron Co. v. Lamb · Franklin v. Colley · Hucklebridge v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Newell v. Newell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no express'agreement shown on the part of Mrs. Lyons that she held the park property in trust for Korman. This was proved by circumstances. While the proof was not strong, we think it was sufficient to justify the jury in so finding.” (Italics ours.) (p. 433.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kull v. Pearl““When a conveyance for a valuable consideration is made to one person and the consideration therefor paid by another, no use or trust shall result in favor of the latter; but the title shall vest in the former, subject to the provisions of the next two sections.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kull v. Pearl““ ‘The certainty required, however, is only such as is sufficient to satisfy the jury of the existence of the trust; and it is error to charge that the “clearest and most positive proof” must be given.’ ” (p. 433.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.