Perkins v. Brinkley.’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1957
4 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.
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.
“Where a special duty is to be performed by the trustee in respect to the estate, such as to collect the rents and profits, to sell the estate, etc., the trust is called active.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. . Borden“The plaintiff is entitled to be let into the possession of her lands, and, in a legal sense, the sole and exclusive possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sipe v. . Herman“If the trust be simply to permit A. to receive the rents, the legal estate is executed in A., this being a mere passive trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. . Borden
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.