Rand v. McKittrick’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
July 1956
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on King v. . Talbot · Borgstede v. Waldbauer · Taylor's Estate · White v. White · Cornet v. Cornet
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making investments of trust funds the trustee is under a duty to the beneficiary (a) in the absence of provisions in the terms of the trust or of a statute otherwise providing, to make such investments and only such investments as a prudent man would make of his own property having primarily in view the preservation of the estate and the amount and regularity of the income to be derived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vest v. Bialson
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.