236 Mo. App. 289 - Hamilton v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1978
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 Sears v. Choate · Stewart v. Jones · Evans v. Rankin · Peugnet v. Berthold · Rector v. Dalby
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In this case, the plaintiff has no right to the corpus during her lifetime, but it is within the absolute discretion of the trustee whether any of it is ever used for her or paid to her. Furthermore, this power which the trustee has makes it possible that the remainder will be defeated by his use of the corpus for plaintiff’s maintenance. The testatrix clearly manifested her intention to have the property controlled and the proceeds spent by some one other than plaintiff. She, no doubt, had a good reason for doing so, but, at any rate, it was her property and she had a right to do so.””
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.