Hellman v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001 · most notably Curry v. McCanless (1939), Booth v. Oakland Bank of Savings (1898)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Hearst v. Pujol
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. An intention on the part of the trustor to create a trust; and, “2. The subject, purpose and beneficiary of the trust.” (Civil Code, sec. 2221.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Noble v. Learned
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.