Leach v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2024
7 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 Greenwich Trust Co. v. Tyson · Nelson v. California Trust Co. · Smith v. Edwards · Madsen v. Madsen · Geary v. Cain
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not to be supposed that that statute was intended to limit or interfere with other traditional and beneficial uses of trusts. That a trustor can deal generally with his property as he desires we have no doubt; and this includes placing it in an irrevocable trust, beyond his own power to reclaim, or to sell or alienate it; and may include a so-called 'spendthrift trust' provision to safeguard against improvident dissipation thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gladwell v. Harline“1. “pay to or for the benefit of the grantor” the necessary income to maintain the grantor’s reasonable standard of living and to maintain her home; 2. purchase a new car every two or three years at the grantor’s request; and 3. provide the necessary income for the grantor and a companion to vacation....”
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.