Cooke v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1950
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of these statutes of our own and other states * * * is the creation of a trust fund in the hands of a trustee for a class of beneficiaries described with particularity,—as perfect a trust as can be created by deed or will, and as much entitled to protection from the court. “It is elementary law that a fund cannot be taken from a trustee, in the absence of an allegation that he is wrong either in possession or in administration. “* * * This statute (providing for the appointment of receivers upon insolvency) cannot confer upon the receivers power to disregard any existing lawful contract. They can no more compel the trustee to surrender property lawfully subjected to a trust than they can compel a mortgagee or pledgee to release without payment. “It is of no legal significance that they aver that they intend to apply the fund for the benefit of those for whom it was created. So will the trustee.””
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.