Keye v. Gautier’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 500 So. 2d 540 - Florida Bar v. Stahl · Crawford v. Crawford · 483 So. 2d 867 - Centrust Sav. Bank v. Barnett Banks Trust Co. · 462 So. 2d 1122 - Shriner v. Dyer · 490 So. 2d 1271 - Halpin v. Short
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Keye permitted the trust to make a loan from the trust to himself, for his own benefit, without providing the trust with a means of recourse if Keye defaulted upon his mortgage, he violated section 737.403(2), by not receiving express authorization from a court before engaging in this type of self-dealing. The public policy of this State, as articulated in numerous court decisions, frowns upon a trustee using trust funds unnecessarily at risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““finding Keye had breached his fiduciary duty as trustee by mismanaging and misappropriating trust funds for his own benefit. Section 737.403(2) requires a trustee to seek approval from a court for the exercise of a trust power when it conflicts with the trustee’s individual interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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