Sundquist v. Sundquist’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2023
3 district · 14 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 Worthington v. Hart · Hills v. Travelers Bank & Trust Co. · Closset v. Burtchaell · 17 Utah 2d 53 - Walker v. Walker · Lafferty v. Sheets
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'must have an intent to create a presently enforceable trust, the trust property must be clearly specified and set aside, ... and the essential terms of the trust must be clear enough for the court to enforce the equitable duties that are the sine qua non of a trust relationship'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he principles governing the creation of a trust are well settled. An inter vivos trust is created when a settlor, with intent to create a trust, transfers property to a trustee in trust for, or declares that he or she (the settlor) holds specific property in trust for, a named beneficiary.... the trust property must be clearly specified and set aside ... and the essential terms of the trust must be clear enough for the court to enforce the equitable duties that are the sine qua non of a trust relationship.... This requirement of clarity is met if the beneficiaries are identified....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Martin“[A] trustee is entitled to reimbursement for all expenses properly incurred in discharging the responsibilities of his trust.”
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.