Torrey v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 state decisions

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

1. ““We do not doubt that the trust property or fund must be clearly traced; that is to say, where there have been successive transfers, each link in the chain of transfers through which it is sought to establish the trust must be distinctly pointed out. It is not sufficient by proof of circumstances to raise a strong presumption that in some way, not clearly shown, the wife’s separate estate has passed into the property in which the trust is sought to be established. But when the train of transfer has been clearly shown we do not think that the consideration of each conveyance need be indisputably proved. “The evidence should be sufficient to produce belief in the minds of the jury that the property has been distinctly traced through all its mutations, but it need not place the question beyond dispute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Townsend v. Chaillett