Kimble v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1999
7 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 Joseph v. City of Ranger · Arterbury v. United States Nat. Bank of Galveston · West Texas Bank & Trust Co. v. Matlock
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . that plaintiffs, as trustees, were, on September 1, 1954, authorized to continue to exercise the powers necessary and proper for the preservation of the trust, to partition the property and to prepare and file a final accounting and that a reasonable time for the performance of such duties would be on or before March 1, 1955; that the trustees had authority to adjust the accounts between the parties in making their final accounting; that they had authority to employ an auditor to prepare a final accounting and to pay him a reasonable fee therefor, and that they had authority to employ an attorney to file suit for a declaratory judgment to determine their status and powers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule in such cases is that subject to the provisions of the trust instrument, the trustee has [winding-up powers].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldin v. Bartholow
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.