Klinkerfuss v. Cronin’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2024
19 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 Murphy v. Carron · Walton v. City of Berkeley · Agnew v. Johnson · State Ex Rel. Chase Resorts, Inc. v. Campbell · Fugate v. Fugate
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a judicial proceeding involving the administration of a trust, the court, as justice and equity may require, may award costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, to any party, to be paid by another party or from the trust that is the subject of the controversy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his section took effect in 2005, and we have found no Missouri appellate decision construing it or analyzing its application. In Kutten v. Bank of Am., N.A., however, the federal district court found that section 456.10-1004 provided an independent basis to award attorney's fees to the defendant. Stating that the statute's language was plain, the court rejected the plaintiff beneficiaries' argument that it applied only in the case of bad faith or egregious conduct. Section 456.10-1004 applies here because this suit involves administration of a trust. The plain language of section 456.10-1004 provides that any party ... may be ordered to pay attorneys' fees as justice and equity require. Justice and equity recommend such an award here. Otherwise, either the innocent beneficiary, who had no part in the litigation, would find her share of the trust depleted due to her sister's vexatious litigation, or the trustee would have to personally bear the expense for performing his duty to the trust.”
3 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.