Speed v. Speed’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Campbell v. Campbell · City of Roswell v. City of Atlanta · 198 Ga. App. 736 - Porter v. Food Giant, Inc. · Woodruff v. Trust Co. of Ga. · Henderson v. Collins
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no settlor, disabled or otherwise, should be permitted to put his own assets in a trust, of which he is the sole beneficiary, and shield those assets with a spendthrift clause, because to do so is 'merely shift[ing] the settlor's assets from one pocket to another, [in an attempt to avoid creditors].'”
2 later decisions 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.