76 Cal. App. 4th 83 - Johnson v. Kotyck’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “So long as a trust is revocable, a beneficiary’s rights are merely potential, rather than vested. The beneficiary’s interest could evaporate in a moment at the whim of the trustor.... Giving a beneficiary with a contingent, nonvested interest all the rights of a vested beneficiary is untenable. We cannot confer on the contingent beneficiary rights that are illusory, which the beneficiary only hopes to have upon the death of the trustor, but only if the trust has not been previously revoked and the beneficiary has outlived the trustor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Head v. Wachovia Bank of Georgia, N.A.

2. “[U]nder basic principles of trust law, since the trust is revocable, Ed’s interest in it is, at least up to this point in time, ... "`merely potential’ and could `evaporate in a moment at the whim of the [trustor],’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Opus Corp.