Mills v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2000
4 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 89 So. 2d 255 - Holland v. Gross · 15 Ill. App. 2d 414 - Estate of Greenberg v. Sugarman · Ball v. Mills · In re Dunlop's Estate
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As applied to the case sub judice compensation to attorneys employed by an individual trustee should not be allowed from the funds of the trust unless it appears to the satisfaction of the court that their employment was or is necessary for the protection of the trust, (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . each trustee is not entitled to employ an independent attorney for advice or other professional duties in his administration of the trust estate but must rely upon an attorney selected by the majority except in instances where no majority decision is reached ..."”
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.