Judson v. Witlin’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 661 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Goff v. Taylor (1983), Lichstrahl v. Bankers Trust (1985)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Waterbury v. Munn · Croom v. Ocala Plumbing & Electric Co. · Phillips v. C. Palomo & Sons · Williams v. Wirt
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is ... a strong policy that will prevent any person from placing his property in what amounts to a revocable trust for his own benefit which would be exempt from the claims of his creditors.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assets from the bankruptcy estate. We now consider whether the Goffs' Keogh plans can fall within the spendthrift trust definition. The general rule is well established that if a settlor creates a trust for his own benefit and inserts a”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A spendthrift trust is defined to be those trusts that are created with a view of providing a fund for the maintenance of another, and at the same time securing it against his own improvidence or incapacity for self-protection. The provisions against alienation of the trust fund by the voluntary act of the beneficiary, or invitum by his creditors, are the usual incidents of such trusts. 26 Am. & Eng. Ency.Law (2d Ed) p. 138 and authorities cited.”
4 later decisions 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.