Koplar v. Rosset’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1990
15 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 Dickey v. Volker · Trautz v. Lemp · Goddard ex rel. Hyde v. Delaney · Kingston v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · Hyams v. Old Dominion Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where discretion is conferred upon the trustee with respect to the exercise of a power, its exercise is not subject to control by the court except to prevent an abuse by the trustee of his discretion.”
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.