Calloway v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1998
2 district · 4 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 Dority v. W. E. Rogers Company · Louisville Tobacco Warehouse Co. v. Thompson · Woolley v. Preston · Davidson's ex'rs v. Kemper · Department of Public Welfare v. Meek
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Estates of every kind held or possessed in trust are subject to the debts and charges of the beneficiaries thereof the same as if the beneficiaries also owned the similar legal interest in the property, unless the trust is a spendthrift trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goforth v. Gee“The test in every case is: Has the beneficiary such an interest in the trust estate that he may demand it from the trustee? If so, it is subject to his debts. If not, it is beyond the reach of his creditors who stand in his shoes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goforth v. Gee
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.