Bohn v. Bohn’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2016
15 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 Hedtke v. Hedtke · Fitz-Gerald v. Hull · Thigpen v. Locke · Ex Parte Winfield Scott · Deaton v. Rush
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that one who desires to create an express, private trust must give his trustee affirmative private duties. In the absence of such powers and duties the trust is passive and dry, and legal title, not merely an equitable interest, passes to the cestui que trust. There is respectable authority that the duty of executing a deed to a named cestui que trust is not such a duty as will prevent title from vesting immediate ly..” [emphasis added].”
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.