Simmons v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2016
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 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson · Brabham v. Brabham · 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 631 So. 2d 812 - Murphy v. Murphy · 473 So. 2d 416 - Allgood v. Allgood
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A resulting trust arises from the acts of the parties, or may be deducible from the nature of the transaction, although not expressed by the words of the parties. While a constructive trust is designed to prevent fraud, overreaching or the like, by which one person has obtained legal title to property rightfully belonging to another, a resulting trust is "designed to give effect to the unwritten but actual intention of the parties at the time of the acquisition of title to the affected property."”
1 later decision 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.