30 Wis. 2d 116 - Robert Hill Foundation v. Learman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A trustee or an executor, in whom there has been imposed a special trust or confidence, must act not only honestly or with good faith in the narrow sense but must also exercise the duty of loyalty toward the beneficiary for whose benefit the power of sale is to be exercised and with such care and skill as a man of ordinary prudence would exercise in dealing with his own property.” 10”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Piette v. Horn · 40 Wis. 2d 139 - Van Epps v. City Bank of Portage

2. ““. . . the executor did not act in a prudent and businesslike manner with a view to obtaining as large a price as he might with due diligence and attention have obtained. The executor failed in his trust.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 54 Wis. 2d 47 - State v. Hartman

3. “an executor with an unqualified power of sale must exercise the diligence and caution which a careful and prudent owner would observe in the sale of his own property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Piette v. Horn