Dunker v. Reichman’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 177 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2002
5 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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · International Administrators, Inc. v. Life Insurance Co. of North America · 68 Ill. 2d 502 - Stuart v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. · 131 Ill. App. 3d 417 - Williams v. Springfield Marine Bank · Morris v. Jenkins
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.
“[t]he limits of a trustee's powers are determined by the plain and unambiguous language of the instrument creating the trust.... Moreover, the court's role is limited to establishing not what the settlor meant to say, but what was meant by what he did say.... As the Illinois Court of Appeals stated, 'The court's function, therefore, is not to modify the trust or to create new terms different from those to which the parties have agreed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“granting the trustees the power to contractually bind the trust meant that either trustee acting alone could legally bind the trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.