Robinson v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 1954 · most notably Veitch v. Woodward Iron Co. (1917), Gunter v. Townsend (1918)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Woodstock Iron Co. v. Fullenwider · Herbert v. Hanrick · Lansden v. Bone · Doe ex dem. Gosson v. Ladd · Smyth v. Oliver
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “The trustee is the embodiment, so to speak, of the cestui que trust. Through him, they are parties to the deed. They are separate from him, and can assail his acts,- only in equity. If recitals showing a breach are conclusive, as a corollary, they are conclusive when they show conformity, thus excluding, in the latter case, all redress. “A purchaser from a trustee, in contravention of the trust, in no sense, becomes thereby an express trustee. He becomes a trustee in invitum, by construction of law. He is a constructive trustee. He holds actually in his own right, and in hostility to the world; but a court of equity, as Judge Story puts it, will ‘force-a trust upon his conscience,’ and compel him to perform it or answer for its fruits. 2 Story Eq. Jur. § 1257; 2 Washburn Real Prop. marg. p. 177, § 21; Hill on Trustees, marg. p. 144; 1 Perry on Trusts, §§ 217, 241; 2 Pom. Eq. § 1048; Smyth v. Oliver, 31 Ala. 39 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bellamy v. Pitts““Here, in the case before us, after the trustee executed' tlie trust, the remaindermen had no title and no possibility of becoming invested with one, except by suing in equity to acquire it, based upon the independent cause of relief conferred by the breach of trust. It is to this equitable proceeding to acquire a title that staleness of demand is pleaded, and to disallow the defense would be to overrule that great and invaluable principle of equity which has stood for centuries requiring the suitor to be diligent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bellamy v. Pitts
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.