Brown v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1986
1 district ·
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 Helvering v. Stuart · United States v. Pelzer · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Disston · Sears v. Childs · Mayberry v. Carey
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * To hold that the trustee has the power under an ‘absolute discretion clause’ to cut off all the rights of the life tenant would confer upon the trustee the power to destroy one of the primary purposes of the trust, i. e., the purpose to benefit the life tenant. An attempted destruction of one of the purposes of the trust would .constitute an abuse of discretion which the courts would control. Here, the beneficiaries were life tenants and entitled to the income for life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Maryland a trustee’s discretionary power is subject to control of the courts to prevent an abuse of discretion. Offut v. Offut, 204 Md. 101 , 102 A.2d 554, 558 (1954). Restatement, Trusts, sec. 187 which was cited with approval by the court in Offut v. Offut, supra * * *”
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.