Morrison v. Asher’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2016
1 federal appellate · 16 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 Carrier v. . Carrier · Sebree v. Rosen · In Re Buder · In Re the Estate of Franz · Fiske v. Buder
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.
““ * * * [I] n ordinary circumstances, and in the absence of direction or authority in the trust instrument, trustees’ commissions should be based upon the amount of yearly income received and paid out, and not based upon the han dling of the corpus except by and with court approval after a showing of circumstances justifying such. * * * ” Id. at 851 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As to commissions, where neither the trust instrument nor statute provides for any certain amount, percent or method of determining trustees’ fees and there is no agreement in respect to such, it is proper to submit the amount of commission of the trustees to a court of equity for approval and allowance.”
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.