Willson v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Hartt v. Hartt (1956), Clare v. Grasty (1972)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Jessup v. . Smith · Solimine v. Hollander · Willson v. Kable · Economic Water Heating Corp. v. Dillon Supply Co. · Stull v. Harvey
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that trustees shall have their costs either out of the trust fund, or from the cestuis que trust personally (upon the principle that he should be reimbursed all the expenses to which he has been put without his own fault by reason of his being a trustee). If there is a fund within the control of the court, they may have their costs as between solicitor and client. Where there is no fimd within the control of the court... [the trustees] are entitled to costs against the cestuis que trust personally, to be taxed as between solicitor and client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stepp v. Foster“He owed a duty to the estate to stand his ground against unjust attack. He resisted an attempt to wrest the administration of the trust from one selected by the testator and to place it in strange hands.... Plainly, such services, if paid for by the trustee personally, would justify reimbursement on his accounting before the surrogate.”
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.