Lewis v. Keating’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If a settlor has directed the trustee to reach a certain end, he must be deemed to have intended that the trustee use the ordinary and natural means for obtaining that result. The court reads such a desire into the trust instrument, not because the court is adding something to the trustee’s authority for the sake of bringing about a result which it thinks would be just, but for the reason that chancery believes that the settlor actually wished the trustee to have such power, although he did not in so many words grant the authority. . . . Where a trustee conforms with the provisions of the trust in their true spirit and meaning, he has authority ‘to adopt measures and to do acts which, though not specified in the instrument, are implied in its general directions and are reasonable and proper means for making them effectual.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lindsay v. White