Hubbard v. Burrell’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1936
8 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule doubtless is, that in suits respecting the trust property, brought either by or against the trustees, the cestuis que trust as well as the trustees are necessary parties; but there are exceptions to this rule. ‘Thus, for example, if each party is entitled to an aliquot part, such as a quarter or a half of an ascertained and definite trust fund, in such a case he may sue for his own portion thereof without making the other cestuis que trust (or beneficiaries) parties, for there is no community of property, or other matter, in virtue of which they have, or can have, any interest in the suit or subject of the suit.’ ””
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.