Rountree v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 471 · 1946
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2000
6 federal appellate ·
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 Copenhaver v. Pendleton · Hutchinson v. Maxwell · Sheridan v. Krause · Alderman v. Virginia Trust Co. · James v. Peoples National Bank
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Estates of every kind holden or possessed in trust shall be subject to the debts and charges of the persons to whose use or to whose benefit they are holden or possessed, as they would be if those persons owned the like interest in the things holden or possessed as in the uses or trusts thereof; but any such estate, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars in actual value, may be holden or possessed in trust upon condition that the corpus thereof and income therefrom, or either of them, shall be applied by the trustee to the support and maintenance of the beneficiaries without being subject to their liabilities or to alienation by them, but no such trust shall operate to the prejudice of any existing creditor of the creator of such trust. (Code 1919, § 5157; 1958, c. 214.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““it is clear from these decisions [including Sheridan] that a bequest in trust, obviously intended for the support and maintenance of the beneficiary, falls within the terms of the statute although the will does not follow the precise terms of the statute . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute is remedial in character and legalizes spendthrift trusts ‘upon condition that the corpus thereof and income therefrom . . . shall be applied by the trustee to the support and maintenance of the beneficiaries.’”
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.