Wetmore v. . Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1963 · most notably Stone v. White (1937), Place v. . Hayward (1889)
4 federal appellate · 84 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 Austin v. . Munro · Western R.R. Co. v. . Nolan · Wright v. . Wright · Merritt v. . Seaman · Wolcot v. Knight
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a universal rule, as trusts are now regulated, that ail persons who take through or under the trustee shall be liable to the execution of the trust; so all assigns of the trustee by acts inter vivos, except purchasers for a valuable consideration without notice, will be bound by the trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We see no reason why a trustee, who has been guilty even of an intentional fault, is not entitled to his locus peniténtise, and an opportunity to repair the wrong which he may have committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is not easy to see how a right can accrue to a person through a conveyance from one who is known to be incapable of conveying.””
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.