Black v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2012
6 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 Hodge v. Joy · Pearce v. Pearce · Henderson v. Henderson · George v. Widemire · Gordon v. Central Park Little Boys League
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fact that the persons named as executor (trustees) are also beneficiaries does not affect the validity of the trust. It is true that the same person cannot be at the same time sole trustee and sole beneficiary of the same identical interest, but a cestui que trust, a beneficiary, is not prohibited from occupying the position of trustee for his own benefit where he is a trustee for others as well as for himself." 286 Ala. at 239 , 238 So.2d at 866.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no particular form of words is required to create a trust, but [ ] any instrument in writing signed by the parties, or party, at the time of the trust’s creation, or subsequently, will suffice, if the nature, subject matter, and objects of the trust are manifested with reasonable certainty by the instrument.”
1 later decision 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.