Colburn v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
181 U.S. 601 · 1901
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1996
5 federal appellate · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Cotrustees may not act independently of one another, nor ignore each other in the management of the trust. The trust Is entitled to the united judgment, discretion, and ability.of all the trustees selected. For this reason they may not delegate discretionary powers among themselves.” See, also, Wilbur v. Almy, 12 How. 180 , 13 L. Ed. 944 -945.”
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.