McCord v. Ashbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Watson Truck & Supply Co., Inc. v. Males (1990), Sturgeon v. Clark (1961)
24 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 Smith v. Whittier · Farmers' State Bank of Ada v. Keen · 140 N.J. Eq. 575 - Moses v. Moses · Crespin v. Albuquerque Gas & Electric Co. · Collins v. Collins
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A resulting trust arises when the legal estate in property is disposed of, conveyed, or transferred, but the intent appears or is inferred from the terms of the disposition or from accompanying facts and circumstances that the beneficial interest is not to go, or be enjoyed, with the legal title. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Reid
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.