Ithaca Trust Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 151 · 1929
Citation profile
512 federal appellate · 104 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,308 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States (1949), Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co. (1949)
512 federal appellate · 104 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Knowlton v. Moore · New York Trust Co. v. Eisner · Young Men's Christian Ass'n of Columbus Ohio v. Davis · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Cited together with Merchants Nat Bank of Boston v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Henslee v. Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co. · Humes v. United States · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. State Sternberger · United States v. Provident Trust Co.
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 1,308 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he estate so far as it may be is settled as of the date of the testator's death.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fixed in fact and capable of being stated in definite terms of money.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessary to suitably maintain her in as much comfort as she now enjoys”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.