Duncan Trust’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Kay v. Kay (1975), Yohe v. Yohe (1976)
9 federal appellate · 16 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 Easton v. Washington County Insurance · La Rocca Trust · Sowers Estate · Lifter Estate · Bugen v. New York Life Insurance
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear, precise, convincing and of the most satisfactory character”
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.