Powers v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2011
13 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 Harris v. Citizens Bank & Trust Co. · Leake's Ex'or v. Leake · Young v. Bowen · Clemons v. Dennis · Koteen v. Bickers
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The inquiry in every case in which it is sought to fix a liability upon a fiduciary is: 1. Did he act within the scope of his powers and duties? 2. Did he act in good faith? 3. Did he act with ordinary prudence? If he did so act, he is not responsible for the consequences-of the act, though it result in the loss of the trust fund, or some part of it.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Young v. Bowen, 131 Va. 401 , 108 S. E. 866 , we expressly held that the ex parte settlements of the commissioner of accounts are presumed to be correct until surcharged and falsified, and not only the duty of specifying errors, but also the onus probandi devolves on the party complaining. Cited to sustain the rule are Peale v. Hickle, 9 Gratt. (50 Va.) 437; Corbin v. Mills’ Ex’rs, 19 Gratt. (60 Va.) 438.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judge Harrison in his work, Wills and Administration, Vol. 1, page 702 says: "the statute of Virginia furnishes immunity to the Virginia fiduciary who invests according to the provisions of the statute, and the reasons for departing therefrom should be very urgent, although, as heretofore pointed out, the statute is altogether permissive.””
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.