Kennedy Trust’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Williamson Estate (1951), In Re Testamentary Trust Created Under the Last Will & Testament of Ischy (1980)
34 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 Bosler's Estate · Constable's Estate · Commercial Trust Co. of N.J. v. Spiegelberg · 119 N.J. Eq. 376 - Commercial Trust Co. of N.J. v. Mason · In re Estate of Hays
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, the trust deed is silent as to the compensation payable to the trustees upon the termination of their fiduciary duties and their faithful handling of and accounting for the trust corpus. Their prima facie right to remuneration for such services is not to be overridden by a mere implication drawn from incidental mention in the deed of trust of a . commission to the trustees on income. . . . There is no suggestion that the deductible commission on income was to be in complete discharge of the trustees’ services with respect to corpus.””
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.