Jessup v. . Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Clark v. State Street Trust Co. (1930), Vass v. Conron Bros. (1932)
7 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJessup v. Smith
Relationships
Relies on Austin v. . Munro · Ferrin v. . Myrick · O'Brien v. . Jackson · New v. . Nicoll · Schoenherr v. . Van Meter
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question remains whether the services were beneficial in the preservation of the trust. We have no doubt that they were. Mr. Smith had been named in the will as a trustee. He owed a duty to the estate to stand his ground against unjust attack. He resisted an attempt to wrest the administration of the trust from one selected by the testator and to place it in strange hands.””
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.