Closset v. Burtchaell’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Carter v. Berry (1962), McQueen v. Branch Banking & Trust Co. (1952)
4 district · 26 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 John Smith v. Robert Bell · Tilden v. . Green · Sears v. Choate · Whall v. Converse · Brandenburg v. Thorndike
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a well-established rule that where the purposes for which a trust has been created have been accomplished and all of the beneficiaries are sui juris, a court will, on the application of all of the beneficiaries or of one possessing the entire beneficial interest declare a termination of the trust[.]"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Harrell
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.