McCormick v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““WHEREUPON, this cause proceeded to trial on the merits, and . . . the Court finds . . . that the plaintiffs are entitled to judgment specifically enforcing defendants’ written agreement to resign as trustees of the Susan McCormick testamentary trust and written agreement to request the appointment by a District Court of a Trust Department of a reputable bank suitable to such trustees as a successor trustee, and it further appearing to the Court that all three of the trustees of said trust were parties to said written agreement and did in fact agree upon the First National Bank, located in Tulia, Texas, as such successor trustee, and that said Bank is agreeable to the acceptance and administration of such trust .... “IT IS THEREFORE FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED such written agreement to resign and seek the appointment of a successor trustee should be specifically enforced against all three of said trustees and that their respective resignations •should be contemporaneous.” ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ “IT IS THEREFORE FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that Charles H. Hines, Genevieve Lemons, and Harold J. McCormick be and they are hereby removed from their respective offices as trustees of the Susan McCormick Testamentary Trust; “IT FURTHER APPEARING TO THE COURT that the foregoing action of the Court leaves the Susan McCormick Testamentary Trust without a trustee and that a trustee of said trust is necessary and that this Court has jurisdiction to appoint such trustee, but that ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCormick v. Hines