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Tillar v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis

1905

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
3
states following
November 1996
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably Nichols v. Wray (1996), Betts v. Betts (1996)

38 state decisions

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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 Robinson v. Robinson · Johnson v. Richardson · Trapnall's adx. v. Brown · Richardson v. Taylor · Crow v. Watkins

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

  1. ““Constructive trusts may be proved by parol, but parol evidence is received with great caution, and the courts uniformly require the evidence to- establish such trusts to be clear and satisfactory. Sometimes it is expressed that the ‘evidence offered for this purpose must be of so positive a character as to leave no doubt of the fact,’ and sometimes it is expressed as requiring the evidence to be ‘full, clear and convincing,’ and sometimes expressed as requiring it to be ‘clearly established.’ ” Citing cases.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Scogin v. Scogin
  2. ““Titles to real estate cannot be overturned by a bare preponderance of oral testimony seeking to establish a trust in opposition to written instruments. The conservatism of the courts has prevented the tenure of realty being based on such shifting sands.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wilson v. Rodgers

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.