West v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[W]here a settlor . . . conveyed his personal property to a trustee, relinquishing all control over the corpus and all right to revoke the trust, and reserving nothing to himself but the bare right to enjoy the income during his lifetime, it was held in . . .a suit in equity by the wife to set aside the trust, that the trust was valid, a completed inter vivos trust. The court rejected a contention that the trust was in effect a disposition causa mortis, stating that it was clear that where a settlor, who had no reason to assume death was pending, conveyed his personalty to a trustee, relinquishing all control over the corpus and all right to revoke the trust, and reserving nothing by the bare right of enjoyment of the income for life, such person had created a completed inter vivos trust which could not be set aside in a suit in equity by the wife.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kelly v. Lansford