Sears v. Hassett’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.2d 961 · 1940
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2022
7 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Morrissey v. Commissioner · Von Baumbach v. Sargent Land Co. · United States v. Emery, Bird, Thayer Realty Co. · McCoach v. Minehill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad · Helvering v. Coleman-Gilbert Associates
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the character of the trust as an association is not determined by the intentions or expectations of its creators, proved by parol, nor by the extent to which the powers in the trust instrument have actually been exercised, but rather by the purposes and potential activities as disclosed on the face of the trust instrument. * * * [Sears v. Hassett, supra at 962-963 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“parties are not at liberty to say their purpose was other or narrower than that which they formally set forth in the instrument under which their activities were conducted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the usual broad powers found in Massachusetts real estate trusts.”
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.