21 Wis. 2d 334 - Barry v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1999
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 Will of Leonard v. Ingram · Holmlund v. La Crosse Trust Co. · La Crosse Trust Co. v. Holmlund · Schuler v. Cobeen · Mackin v. Hobbs
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.
“[A] trustee has the duty to keep proper accounts of his stewardship. The responsibility and duties of a trustee are not to be lightly assumed or carelessly executed. Good faith in their performance alone is not sufficient. We need not dwell to any extent on the duties to keep clear, distinct, and accurate records of all the transactions of a trustee. . . . The final account of a trustee should show in detail the items expended and show when, to whom, and for what purposes the payments were made so the beneficiaries can make a reasonable test of the accuracy of the accounts.”
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.