Swanson v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 648 · 1948
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1993
10 federal appellate · 1 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 Princess Lida of Thurn & Taxis v. Thompson · Hardware Dealers' Mut Fire Ins Co of Wisconsin v. Glidden Co · Crane v. Hahlo · Oshkosh Waterworks Co. v. Oshkosh · Oshkosh Waterworks Co. v. Oshkosh
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so long as [the proceedings] pended, they gave to the state court exclusive jurisdiction over the trust estate, and the court below was without jurisdiction to [remove the trustee].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““A. The district court shall have original jurisdiction to construe the provisions of any trust instrument; to determine the law applicable thereto ; the powers, duties, and liability of trustee; the existence or nonexistence of facts affecting the administration of the trust estate; to require accounting by trustees; to surcharge trustee; and in its discretion to supervise the administration of trusts; and all actions hereunder are declared to be proceedings in rem.””
2 later decisions 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.