Markmueller v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2016
7 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Salve Regina College v. Russell · Swanson Humphrey III v. J Buckley · Ronollo v. Jacobs · Electrical Workers, Local No. 1 Credit Union v. IBEW-NECA Holiday Trust Fund · Townsend v. Townsend
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o the extent of the settlor’s beneficial interest in the trust assets, if at the time the trust was established or amended: (a) The settlor was the sole beneficiary of either the income or principal of trust or retained the power to revoke or amend the trust; or (b) The settlor was one of a class of beneficiaries and retained a right to receive a specific portion of the income or principal of the trust that was determinable solely from the provisions of the trust instrument. ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Edelmann“because the trust was settled with tenancy by the entirety property, the settlor was the unity of Conrad and Emily Markmueller [the husband and wife].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to exercise dominion or control over trust assets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.