Scott Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2017
22 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 Commonwealth v. Drum · Commonwealth v. Almeida · Pew Trust · Commonwealth v. Moyer · Williamson 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the Williamson decision, the legislature enacted the Act of May 1, 1953, P.L. 190, 20 P.S. § 3274 et seq. That Act pertinently provides: `Section 2. Whenever it shall appear either during the continuance [*] of a trust or at its end, that a fiduciary has rendered services for which he has not been fully compensated, the court having jurisdiction over his accounts shall allow him such original or additional compensation out of the trust income or the trust principal or both, as may be necessary to compensate him for the services theretofore rendered by him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t appears that the compensation which a corporate fiduciary received in 1941 for all its services as executor, and its future services as trustee of a trust which covered a period of 20 years or more was inadequate and unfair because of the long duration of the trust and the greatly increased cost of operation. However, all the parties concerned, including the present corporate fiduciary and the individual fiduciaries and the beneficiaries, knowingly took this chance — they all knew that the Statute (Act of 1917) clearly and unambiguously fixed the present and future rights of all executors-trustees to a single commission on principal, which such fiduciaries received and agreed to accept as full compensation for their combined executor and trustee fiduciary services, past, present and future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Neither the appellants nor the appellee nor the Judges of the Orphans’ Court agree as to exactly what Williamson's Estate decided, and what parts thereof were dicta and should not be followed, or in any event should be overruled.FN6 FN6. Judge Lefever in his Opinion in the instant case said that all of the Judges of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia County believed in Williamson’s Estate that additional compensation for ordinary services should be allowed out of principal to a trustee who also served as executor, and they would have awarded additional compensation if they had had the authority and power.”
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.