Robbins v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 293 · 1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2008
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Warner v. Rice · 40 Md. App. 230 - Watterson v. Edgerly · United States v. Baldwin
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.
“One may wish to have one's cake and eat it, too, but the law need not bring the wish to fruition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he settlors here explicitly retained a substantial interest in the corpus of the trust. The trustee was authorized to invade the corpus for the support and care of the settlors. The trustee’s discretion was unfettered, but surely the trustee would recognize that his discretion should be exercised in favor of invasion of the corpus when the needs of the settlors warranted it. At least, to the extent of their needs, the corpus of the trust was available for the maintenance, care and enjoyment of the settlors. The general rule is stated in Restatement (Second) of Trusts section 156(2) (1957). The creditors of a settlor may reach the assets of a spendthrift trust to the maximum extent that the trustee might apply them for the use and benefit of the settlors. Under the terms of this trust, the trustee was authorized to apply the entire corpus for the support and maintenance of the settlors, and thus the entire corpus is subject to the claim of their creditors.”
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.