Hawkins v. Tanner’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1985
19 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 Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. v. Bush · American Freehold Land Mortgage Co. v. Sewell · Upshaw v. Eubank · Birmingham Trust & Savings Co. v. Cannon · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Robinson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is no doubt true that a court of equity has jurisdiction for the enforcement of all trusts, and can generally be called upon by an interested party to construe or interpret the instruments creating or regulating the same; but in order to obtain an interpretation the instrument should be ambiguous or susceptible of a double meaning or construction, and where there is no bona fide doubt as to the true meaning and intent of the provisions of the instrument creating the trust, or as to the^ particular course that the trustee should pursue, there is no need for equitable interference. 3 Pomeroy, Eq.Jur. § 1064; Clay v. Gurley, 62 Ala. 14 . * * *"”
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.