Becker v. Billings’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 38 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It may be conceded that so long as a trustee continues to exercise his powers as trustee in regard to property that he can be called to an account in regard to that trust, but when he has parted with all control over the property and has closed up his relation to the trust and no longer claims or exercises any authority under the trust, the principles which lie at the foundation of all statutes of limitation assert themselves in his favor and time begins to cover his past transactions with her mantle of repose.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Bourdes · Estate of Robert R. Ware, Deceased v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

2. ““An appellant or plaintiff in error who brings a case to an appellate court for review must indicate by his assignment of errors the errors of which he complains and his argument must be confined to the errors so assigned. An appellee or defendant in error is subject to no such requirement. He is entitled to sustain the decree of the trial and appellate courts by any argument and upon any basis appearing in the record which shows that the decree is right, even if he had not previously advanced such argument.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 222 East Chestnut Street Corp. v. Murphy