78 Cal. App. 638 - Whitney v. Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 363 F. Supp. 1238 - Manchester Band of Pomo Indians, Inc. v. United States (1973), Estate of Bodger (1955)
24 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 Dann v. Runyon · Tappan v. Fortman
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However this may be, the will having limited the amount which respondents should receive as compensation for their services, both as executors and trustees, and they having accepted their trust, they are bound thereby and the order of the court allowing them a greater amount is without authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bodger“Their [the trustees] acceptance of the trust will be held as an agreement to receive such compensation as the instrument directs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bodger
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.