Devine v. Cote’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2017
8 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 City of Bridgeport v. Reilly · Brahmey v. Rollins · Eaton v. Eaton · In Re Lathrop Estate · Amoskeag Trust Co. v. Wentworth
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.
“Insofar as distributions are made from the trust under the will of Mary Bouchard, the expectancy of the remaindermen of the trust estate is reduced. Insofar as distributions are made from the funds under the control of the guardian, the expectancy of the heirs-at-law of Leo E. Bouchard is reduced. Since the remaindermen under the trust and the heirs-at-law of the ward are not the same persons, the trustee and the guardian are in the position of favoring either the remaindermen or the heirs-at-law by the actions which they take. The trustee is in doubt concerning his duties under the trust instrument and for this reason has sought instructions from the Court.”
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.