Engstrom v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2008
9 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 Rookwood Pottery Co. v. Commissioner · Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Ford Motor Co. · Olivier v. Uleberg
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the commingling is through the fault of the [constructive] trustee, the entire mass will be treated as trust property or funds except insofar as the trustee may be able to distinguish what is his.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMerty v. Herzog““5. The sale of a business will be presumed, in the absence of any expression to the contrary in the agreement of sale, to pass the good will of the business with other assets.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Auran“The trustee is under a duty to the beneficiary to keep the trust property separate from his individual property.”
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.