Hagedorn v. Arens’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Geddes v. United Staffing Alliance Employee Medical Plan (2006), Commercial Trust Co. of N.J. v. Spiegelberg (1934)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 McCracken v. Gulick · Lang v. Lang's · 99 N.J. Eq. 207 - Beattie v. Gedney · Kingsland v. Scudder · 34 N.J. Eq. 223 - In re the Account of Wolfe
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What, however, is the fiduciary's work? Certainly work which is beyond the ordinary or reasonably to be expected skill and ability of such a fiduciary, cannot be deemed his work, and he will be entitled to obtain the skilled services of experts where necessary or advisable, and to have their compensation paid out of the estate; and indeed would probably be censurable, and perhaps personally liable, if he failed to do so. [At 383]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The new capital stock goes to corpus, subject to a charge in favor of the life tenant (or life tenants) of the amount of his or their money (share of earnings) used to pay for the stock usually at the par value of the stock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is fair to assume that he had in mind that the legatee would receive a fair and normal income at a normal rate covering the entire life period.”
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.