McLemore v. McLemore’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2015
1 district · 4 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 Reid v. Barry · 445 So. 2d 597 - Bonifay v. Garner · 297 So. 2d 622 - Porter v. Lorene Investment Company · Seton v. Swann · 146 So. 2d 383 - Watson v. St. Petersburg Bank & Trust Company
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the designation of beneficiaries is deemed too indefinite for enforcement of the provisions of a trust, the usual result is that the trust is void and "the designated trustee holds the corpus under a resulting trust in favor of the estate of the settlor." ... Where it is compatible with the settlor's intent, it may be possible to sever the uncertain provision from an accompanying enforceable one, "so that the remaining provision, and the trust as a whole, may be preserved."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Rex“... Where it is compatible with the settlor's intent, it may be possible to sever the uncertain provision from an accompanying enforceable one,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Rex“so that the remaining provision, and the trust as a whole, may be preserved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Rex
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.