Hardy v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2019
2 district · 8 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 Gaver v. Gaver · Thweatt v. Freeman · Calvert v. Carter · White River, Lonoke & Western Railway Co. v. Star Ranch & Land Co. · Clark v. Spanley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the most fundamental duties of the trustee is that he must display throughout the administration of the trust complete loyalty to the interest of the cestui que trust. * # * Where there are two or more beneficiaries of a trust, the trustee is under a duty to deal impartially with them [Restatement (First and Second) of Trusts § 183].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riegler v. Riegler
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.