Green v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1981 · most notably American Motorists Insurance v. Trane Co. (1981), Helen McLanahan Stevens v. Chauncey C. Loomis (1964)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Strawbridge v. Curtiss · Mitchell v. Maurer · City of Indianapolis v. Chase Nat Bank of City of New York · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendants also contend that the District Court has no right to entertain the present suit for accounting because it would interfere with the jurisdiction of the county court of Crawford county, wherein the estate of Martha Green is still being administered and wherein Herschel is acting as executor of her will. “County courts, in exercising probate jurisdiction, have no power in Illinois as to the management of trust estates. Brinkerhoff v. Huntley, 223 Ill.App. 591 , 605. Such a court is not a court of general jurisdiction. Howard v. Swift, 356 Ill. 80 , 84, 190 N.E. 102 . The administration of testamentary trusts constitutes a well established branch of equity jurisdiction, and is in no sense a ‘probate matter’ such as is contemplated by the provisions of the Illinois constitution relating to probate courts. Frackelton v. Masters, 249 Ill. 30 , 94 N.E. 124 ; Huston v. Weed, 242 Ill.App. 495 . “We, therefore, hold that the pendency of the Martha Green estate in the county court is no bar to the present action in the District Court.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whether or not its jurisdiction over the Martha trust has become a proceeding in rem, by virtue of Herschel’s submitting to that court his resignation as trustee thereof and its appointment of a successor trustee, is not necessary for us to decide.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attitude and conduct . . . toward the controversy”
2 later decisions 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.