Mitchell v. Ottinger’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.2d 334 · 1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 66
Relies on California Bank v. Kennedy · Pufahl v. Parks' Estate · Forrest v. Jack · Ohio Valley National Bank v. John Hulitt · Seabury v. Green
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law, when there were several trustees, they were considered to hold the trust estate as joint tenants and on the death of any one trustee, the trust estate remained vested in the surviving trustee or trustees and the Pennsylvania rule is not otherwise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.