Kemp v. Paterson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2011
3 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 Schreyer v. . Schreyer · In Re the Accounting of Townsend · In re the Accounting of Regensburg · In re the Accounting of Regensburg
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While undoubtedly, in a sense (the termination of the trust), these purposes will serve the beneficiary's 'best interest', the latter words must be interpreted not in the broadest meaning but in a manner which is consistent with the trust deed. Her 'best interest' must be judged within the framework of the status bestowed upon her by the settlor, the status of a life beneficiary, not of a recipient of the entire trust res .”
2 later decisions 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.