McKeown v. Pridmore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where trustee of a spendthrift trust refused to pay beneficiary payments under the trust, and beneficiary employed an attorney on a contingency contract and the attorney was successful in a suit against the trustee and secured payments for the beneficiary, the attorney did not have a lien on the proceeds, since the spendthrift clause was effective to prevent the assignment of any interest by the beneficiary and the attorney’s lien which was in effect an assignment of an interest, could not attach to such interest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Keaton v. Stephenson

2. ““The chief justification of spendthrift trusts should be found in the protection they furnish to the beneficiary. He cannot be protected if he has died, and the restraint should accordingly be allowed only during his lifetime. After his lifetime his property should be held liable for debts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 3 Ill. App. 3d 337 - Stewart v. MERCHANTS NAT. BK. OF AURORA

3. “We do not find any support for the argument that an assignment by a beneficiary for the purpose of protecting his attorney in his fees, of such beneficiary's interest in a trust protected by a spendthrift clause, stands in a different category than other assignments.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Estate of Lee