In Re McCune’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2025
8 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 4941 · 26 U.S.C. § 4944
Relies on 440 Pa. Super. 195 - Estate of Pew · Harvilla v. Delcamp · Zitelli v. Dermatology Education & Research Foundation · Pruner Estate · In Re Francis Edward McGillick Foundation
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When interpreting a trust instrument, the intent of the settlor is paramount and if that intent is not unlawful, it must prevail. To ascertain this intent, a court must examine the language of the document, the scheme of distribution, and the facts and the circumstances existing at the creation of the trust. The settlor's intent must be determined with such reasonable certainty that little doubt exists of this intent. If the settlor's intent remains uncertain, a court turns to canons of construction to supply the settlor's likely intent.”
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.