93 Cal. App. 126 - Scott v. Donahue’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Steen v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners (1945), Harker v. McKissock (1951)
33 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 Watson v. Jones · Bannerman v. Boyle · Taboada v. Sociedad Espanola De Beneficencia Mutua · Austin v. . Searing · Nance v. Busby
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where funds have been raised by a local lodge, or order, for the general purposes of the parent organization, such as the teaching of the religion or creed of the general body, they constitute a trust fund for the purpose for which they were raised and ‘no number of the members of the order less than the whole could therefore divert the funds to other uses than the uses defined in the constitution and laws of the order.’ (Grand Court, etc., v. Hodel, supra [ 74 Wash. 314 , 133 Pac. 438 , 47 L. R. A. (N. S.) 927].) The rule is based upon the sound principle that a trust fund must be devoted to the purposes for which it was raised. It has no application to a sick benefit fund raised for the benefit of all the members of the local lodge and to which all who are in good standing at the time of an involuntary dissolution of the local are entitled to their proportionate share. Thus, the judgment herein is error in its finding that these funds constituted a trust fund for the benefit of the minority members of Local 198 who affiliated with Local 947. The fund was raised for the benefit of all members— it was a trust for all and not for any particular number of them less than all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Associations of this character are not bodies politic or corporations, nor are they recognized by the law as persons. They are mere aggregates of individuals called for convenience, like partnerships, by a common name. . . . All the property said to belong to it is in fact the property of its members and each man’s share of it is his own private property and equally protected by the fundamental laws,’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When funds have been acquired by the association for the mutual benefit of its members, as to care for the individuals in case of sickness, such funds constitute a trust in favor of every member of the association in good standing, and, in absence of special agreement, the parent body cannot successfully lay claim to the funds upon an involuntary dissolution of the local association.””
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.