Wahl v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Bailey v. Meister Brau, Inc. (1976), 161 F. Supp. 178 - Yonce v. Miners Memorial Hospital Ass'n (1958)
7 federal appellate · 41 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 Taylor v. Mayo · Austin v. . Munro · Duvall v. Craig · McNulta v. Ensch · Hewitt v. Phelps
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A trustee cannot create a lien on the trust estate in favor of a creditor, or charge the trust estate even by his contract, without express authority given by the instrument creating the trust. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tudor v. Firebaugh
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.