Trestrail v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1974 · most notably Buchanan v. Brentwood Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. (1974), Wolfe v. Lewisburg Trust & Safe Deposit Co. (1931)
5 federal appellate · 25 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 National Bank v. Insurance Co. · Vosburgh's Estate · Cameron v. Carnegie Trust Co. · Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. King · Estate of Gaffney
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally speaking, in all cases where the ownership of the fund itself has been in dispute, and not the right to administer it, the court has been particular to do nothing which would disturb in the slightest the fund reaching its destined lawful end, without unnecessary risks that might come if a more liberal policy was adopted, it being conceded the fund was a trust or one that can be called such.””
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.