Bailey v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1996
5 federal appellate · 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 Evans v. Ockershausen · In Re Trust Created by Will of Enger · In Re Trust Under Will of Koffend · Whitcomb v. Blair · In Re the Accounting of Hearns
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In passing upon an account of a trustee, much must be left to the sound judicial discretion of the trial court. While there are some deviations from the required statutory requirements in the preparation of these accounts, we are satisfied that, if they are corrected in the future, the rights of all parties can be adequately protected.””
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.