Thompson v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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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.

1. ““It means more than involuntary, inadvertent, negligent, mistaken, careless, or accidental default. It means an intentional designing failure to do or not to do something required — an affirmative wrong. Van Sielen v. Bartol et al. (C.C.) 95 F. 793 ; In re Mallon’s Estate, 89 N.Y.S. 554 , 43 Misc. Rep. 569 ; Winslow Warren and Others, Trustees, v. Elizabeth B. Pazolt and Others, 89 N. E. 381 , 203 Mass. 328 . * * * “It is doubtless true that a trustee may be guilty of such wanton or willful neglect of his duties, such reckless indifference to and disregard of the interests and rights of the beneficiary, that the law will hold him guilty of a ‘willful default.’ Henry L. Doherty & Co. v. Rice et al. (C.C.) 186 F. 204 ; Kessler & Co. et al. v. Ensley Co. et al. (C.C.) 129 F. 397 .” Id. at 248.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sullivan v. Mosner