Wesson v. Crain’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 6 · 1948
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 44 Cal. 2d 574 - Bowles v. Superior Court (1955), Buder v. Becker (1950)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Payne v. Hook · Niles-Bement-Pond Co. v. Iron Moulders Union Local No. 68 · Elmendorf v. Taylor · Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [n]o beneficiary has a right to have the affairs of a trust conducted unlawfully, and no beneficiary can complain of the removal of a trustee if it is demonstrated that he has, because of misconduct, become an unfit person to occupy that position.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“who not only have an interest in the controversy but an interest of such a nature that a final decree cannot be made without either affecting that interest, or leaving the controversy in such a condition that its final determination may be wholly inconsistent with equity and good conscience.”
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.