Peiter v. Degenring’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Dreier v. Upjohn Co. (1985), Cameron v. Cameron (1982)
59 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 Claflin v. Claflin · Kanopka v. Kanopka · Cuthbert v. . Chauvet · Colonial Trust Co. v. Brown · South Norwalk Trust Co. v. St. John
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judge is not a mere umpire in a forensic encounter, but a minister of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The function of the court [of equity] with reference to trusts is not to remake the trust instrument, reduce or increase the size of the gifts made therein or accord the beneficiary more advantage than the donor directed that he should enjoy, but rather to ascertain what the donor directed that the donee should receive and to secure to him the enjoyment of that interest only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.