Cox v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2008
6 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 Katz Investment Co. v. Lynch · Engelsmann v. Holekamp · 92 F. Supp. 33 - Hanson v. Birmingham · Ponzelino v. Ponzelino · Northwestern National Bank & Trust Co. v. Pirich
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.
““Accountability is the hallmark of a trust. Property cannot be the subject of a trust where its application for the purposes of the trust depends upon the uncontrolled discretion of the one to whom legal title has been entrusted. Unbridled discretionary powers are inconsistent with the existence of a trust relationship.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The beneficiary may by a proper proceeding compel the trustee to render to the proper court an account of the administration of the trust.... The trustee may be compelled to account not only by a beneficiary presently entitled to the payment of income or principal, but also by a beneficiary who will be or may be entitled to receive income or principal in the future. This is true even though the interest of the beneficiary is contingent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.