Morrison v. Lennett’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Culhane v. Aurora Loan Services (2013), Vittands v. Sudduth (2000)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 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 Sisson v. Ruby · Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · Mullins v. Pine Manor College · Harlow v. Chin · Frost v. Thompson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]s “an entity created for the purpose of holding legal title to property with the trustees having only perfunctory duties”____ “Unlike in a ‘true trust,’ the trustees of a nominee trust have no power, as such, to act in respect of the trust property, but may only act at the direction of ... the beneficiaries.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an entity created for the purpose of holding legal title to property with the trustee[] having only perfunctory duties” (quoting Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc., 595 F.2d 890, 893 (1st Cir.1979))). The trustee of a nominee trust possesses”
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.