Doe v. Ettenheim’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2007
2 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
Relies on Mercer v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Osborne v. Gordon
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If upon such construction of the instrument it appears that a power lodged with the trustees in connection with the trust is a special confidence reposed in this particular trustee or set of trustees, or is to be exercised only upon his or their personal judgment or discretion, such power can only be exercised by the designated trustee and will not pass to a substituted trustee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“«* * * it is not lightly to be supposed that a testator meant to make the execution of trust powers dependent upon the life of a particular trustee, and it is reasonable to conclude that he did so only when he clearly and unmistakably manifests such an intention.””
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.