Blumenstiel v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2006
12 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 Williamson v. Grider · Williams v. Nichol · Murphy v. Morris · Welch v. Welch · Letcher's Trustee v. German Nat. Bank
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Also in Blumenstiel, supra, the Court adopted the rule that mutual hostility between the beneficiaries and the trustee is a sufficient ground for the court to remove the trustee if 1) the provisions of the instrument creating the trust require mutual interchange of ideas, and 2) if the hostility tends to defeat the purpose of the trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]uch personal hostility is a factor to be taken into consideration, and will justify removal of the trustee where it appears that the personal hostility of the parties combines with other circumstances to render removal of the trustee essential to the interests of the beneficiary and the due execution of the trust. . . .”
1 later decision 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.