Merrill v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1995
10 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 Cutting v. . Cutting · Lyon v. Alexamder · In Re the Estate of Greenberg · McFall v. Kirkpatrick · Burnham v. . Comfort
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a special power may be either discretionary or it may be coupled with a duty. A special power is discretionary where its exercise or nonexercise depends wholly on the volition of the grantee; it is coupled with a trust duty where its exercise is obligatory on the grantee. * * *”
1 later decision 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.