Powers v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2001
9 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 Artophone Corporation v. Coale · State Ex Inf. Taylor v. American Ins. Co. · Selleck v. Hawley · United Cemeteries Co. v. Strother · McCarthy v. Tierney
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The commingling of funds is established by Maysack's own testimony that all of the incomes of Laurel Hills [sic] Cemetery, whether of the Association or of the Corporation [Company], are put into one single bank account in the name of the Corporation; that the Association has no bank account of its own; that only one set of books is maintained; that the Association has no books of its own except an interment record; that the only book account showing how the Association stands with the Corporation is a ledger account in the books of the Corporation; that the only method of determining the financial position of the Association is from the general ledger account of the Corporation; that there is no book account of the Association showing its income and expenditures or showing what moneys have been turned over or received back from the Mutual Bank and Trust Company. Such records are only to be found in the books of the Corporation. Likewise, the records with respect to the employment of laborers by the Association are kept only in the books of the Corporation. The employees of the Corporation thus produce and keep the records of the Association."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in their burial properties, the St. Louis Court of Appeals determined that the Trustees of the Association had invested perpetual care funds contrary to the terms of the By-Laws and had also commingled the incomes of the Association with those of the Cemetery Company and Memorial. At page 622 of the Powers opinion, it was stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“schemed, manipulated, transferred and fraudulently conspired ... failed to account for the perpetual care fund and ... improperly diverted funds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Duncan
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.