Johnson v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1976
3 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“"The evidence to establish an implied trust, however, must be clear and convincing. There must be a satisfactory showing of a wrongful detention of the property, or fraud, undue influence, the violation of a trust, or other wrongful act by virtue of which the party is holding title to property which he should not hold under the rules of equity and good conscience. The evidence must be strong enough to lead to but one conclusion. If the evidence is doubtful or capable of reasonable explanation upon theories other than the existence of a trust it is not sufficient to establish a trust. See 35 A.L.R. 286 , 307; 45 A.L.R. 852 ; 80 A.L.R. 198 and cases cited. See also 2 Bogert on Trusts and Trustees, § 464 [1935]." [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The courts are reluctant to ingraft a trust by parol on the legal title to real estate, and there is perhaps no better established doctrine than the one which requires a high degree of proof in order to establish the trust by parol evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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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.