Johnson v. Catherine Gunther Stringer’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Mercantile Trust Co. v. Schloss (1933), Bauernschmidt v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. (1939)
27 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 Smith v. Towers · Disston's Estate · Estate of Vance · Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Gunther
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This language is the identical language held by this court to have created a spendthrift trust in the case of Smith v. Towers, 69 Md. 77 . This case was the first expression of this court on the question of a spendthrift trust, and is a leading case on that subject. This decision was in 1888, since which time it has been settled that a spendthrift trust may be validly created in Maryland if appropriate language be used; and in the numerous subsequent cases in this court, considering the subject of a spendthrift trust, the questions have not been as to the power of the testator to create such a trust, but as to his intention to do so, and the sufficiency of the language used to give effect to such intention.””
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.