Cate-Schweyen v. Cate’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
April 2016
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erker v. Kester · Eckart v. Hubbard · Matter of Estate of Bolinger · McCormick v. Brevig · Hayes v. Lame Deer High School District
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must look to the language of the trust agreement itself to ascertain [the trustor's] intent.”
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.