Offutt v. Offutt’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1981
6 district · 6 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 Kramme v. Mewshaw · Lurman v. Hubner · Abell v. Abell · Gottschalk v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. · Baer v. Kahn
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The principle that the exercise by a trustee of a personal discretion conferred upon him is not subject to control by the court, except to prevent an abuse of discretion, (Citations omitted) remains applicable even when the court has assumed jurisdiction. ... Thus, where a personal power of discretion is vested in the trustees, the Chancellor, even after an assumption of jurisdiction, will require a showing of abuse of discretion before substituting his judgment for that of the trustees, even though he might control their imperative, impersonal, or ministerial powers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rubin v. Goldman
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.