34 Del. Ch. 249 - Equitable Trust Co. v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Green v. Santa Fe Industries, Inc. (1976), Oberly v. Kirby (1991)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 Florida Moss Products Co. v. City of Leesburg · Hudson v. Hudson · Scott v. McGill · Willard F. Deputy & Co v. Hastings · Wood v. Moriarty
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trustee is permitted to acquire from his beneficiary a conveyance or release of interests in the corpus of the trust, provided that the beneficiary is sui juris ....”
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.