Henderson v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2013
10 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 Smith v. Francis · 144 Ga. App. 849 - Prudential Timber & Farm Co. v. Collins · Trammell v. Inman · Jennings v. Coleman & Newsom · Yancey v. Grafton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discretionary trust is a trust under the terms of which the trustee has absolute discretion as to the payment of principal and interest to beneficiaries”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richards v. Richards
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.