Erickson v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Robertson (1949), First National Bank of Omaha v. First Cadco Corp. (1973)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Nichols Assignee v. Eaton et al. · Hyde v. Woods · Spindle v. Shreve · Shelton v. King · Claflin v. Claflin
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * When unrestrained by statute, it is the intent of the donor, not the character of the donee's obligation, which controls the availability and disposition of his gift.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * As a general proposition, when a donor leaves the interest of the beneficiary assignable or transferable it may be reached by creditors. If by appropriate language the right to transfer is completely restrained, then such interest may not be reached by creditors either at law or by equitable proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * Nevertheless, it was held that the language of the trust under the circumstances of that case evinced a clear intent to place the property and the income therefrom beyond the reach of creditors.”
2 later decisions 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.