3 E.H. Smith 520 - Wetmore v. . Wetmore’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1985 · most notably Wetmore v. Markoe (1904), Sistare v. Sistare (1910)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 104 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Bertles v. . Nunan · Romaine v. . Chauncey · Holden v. . Strong · National Tradesmen's Bank v. Wetmore · Williams v. . Thorn
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... no person for whose benefit any trust is hereby created shall have power to anticipate or to dispose of any income directed to be paid or applied to the use of such person until the same shall have fully accrued and become payable to such heir, and the trustees of said respective trusts are empowered and requested to disregard and defeat every assignment or other act in contravention of this clause in my will.””
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.