Long v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Goff v. Taylor (1983), Daniels v. Pecan Valley Ranch, Inc. (1992)
4 federal appellate · 23 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 Dakan v. Dakan · McMurry v. Stanley · Harrell v. Hickman · Darragh v. Barmore · Avery v. Johnson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless discretion is specifically given to the trustee to determine the time or amount of the trust payments or the purpose to which those payments will be applied, or unless other express words of restraint are contained in the instrument creating the trust, the revenue may be anticipated, or assigned by the beneficiary, or made subject to the payment of his or her debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Estate of Lee“the rule that it is not necessary that the trust instrument expressly convey or devise legal title to a trustee, if the intention to create an active trust appears from the instrument.... But again, such intention must be 'as clearly manifested as if express terms had been employed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Estate of Lee“The provision that Lester should not be paid his part in bulk has nothing to do with the vested title. As already stated, it related to distribution only. He could not be the owner of the fee to realty and at the same time restricted in his alienation of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Estate of Lee
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.