Bennett v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 89 Ill. 2d 232 - Home Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Zarkin (1982), 108 Ill. 2d 1 - Sanelli v. Glenview State Bank (1985)
6 federal appellate · 27 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 Allison v. Drake · Galbraith v. Tracy · Billings v. Warren · People v. Bordeaux · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Kinsley
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Early in the history of this state it was laid down as a general principle of equity that a trustee cannot deal on his own account with the thing or the person' falling within the trust. (Thorp v. McCullum, 1 Grilm. 614.) A trustee is not permitted to place himself in a position where it will be difficult for him to be honest and faithful to his trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.