In the Matter of R. Daniel Bass, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably In the Matter of United States Brass Corporation, Pratt v. E
2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Edwards · Pacor Inc. v. Higgins · Peacock v. Thomas · Matter of Wood v. P Wood & Pa · Riggs v. Johnson County
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] universal canon of Anglo-American trust law proclaims that when the trustee's powers of distribution are wholly discretionary, the beneficiary has no ownership interest in the trust or its assets until the trustee exercises discretion by electing to make a distribution to the beneficiary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For jurisdiction to attach, the anticipated outcome of the action must both (1) alter the rights, obligations, and choices of action of the debtor, and (2) have an effect on the administration of the estate[;]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mixed questions of fact and law, and questions concerning the application of law to the facts, are reviewed de novo.”
2 later decisions 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.