McNeil v. McNeil

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the fact a person is a current beneficiary is an essential fact
• noting that in awarding fees to defending trustee, Vice Chancellor must balance extent of trustee's breach of duty with any resulting benefit litigation conferred
• “Generally, a trustee must act as the reasonable and prudent person in managing the trust”
• fiduciary trustees violated the duty of impartiality by failing to furnish to one beneficiary important information that they furnished to other beneficiaries
• “The American rule, which is of general application, requires each side to bear the cost of its attorney’s fees.”
• trustee must disclose terms of trust, including fact that a person is a beneficiary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gotham Partners, L.P. v. Hallwood Realty Partners, L.P.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-10-11· cited 183×
• Production Resources Group, L.L.C. v. NCT Group, Inc.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2004-11-17· cited 157×
• Carlson v. Hallinan
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2006-03-21· cited 86×
• Capaldi v. Richards
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-03-04· cited 17×
• Shipley v. New Castle County
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-06-15· cited 14×
• Frederick-Conaway v. Baird
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-03-28· cited 13×
• Murphy v. Schaible
  Tenth Circuit· 2024-07-25· cited 2×
• In Re Esther Caplan Trust
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2011-09-01· cited 1×
• Chavin v. PNC Bank
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-04-28· cited 1×
• Bistrow v. Sova
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2011-09-01· cited 1×
• Hardy v. Hardy
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2014-07-29
• IMO the Thomas Lawrence Reeves Irrevocable Trust Under Agreement Dated February 26, 1997
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2015-04-29
• Marie Ann Hurd v. Leonard Hurd, Jr., Individually and as Trustee of the Marie Ann Hurd Trust
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-03-26
• Ray Wayne Lynch v. Frank Barba
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-04-03
• In re Oxbow Carbon LLC Unitholder Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-08-01
• IN RE: THE TRUST FBO SAMUEL FRANCES duPONT UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 4, 1936 (POWER OF APPOINTMENT TRUST)
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2018-09-25
• In Re Verizon Insurance Coverage Appeals
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-10-31
• Marie Ann Hurd v. Leonard Hurd, Jr.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2020-01-31
• Ralph Paul Deputy v. Jay Christian Deputy
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2020-03-02
• Wendt v. Steelcome Limited
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-05-26

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Levitt v. Bouvier
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1972-01-04· cited 265×
• Fiduciary Trust Co. v. Fiduciary Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-04-20· cited 70×
• Hogg v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-03-16· cited 44×
• Wilmington Trust Company v. Coulter
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1964-02-11· cited 36×
• Brice v. State, Department of Correction
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-01-22· cited 34×
• Schildberg v. Schildberg
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-09-19· cited 28×
• In re the Trust Estate of Catell
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1944-07-15· cited 20×
• Wilmington Trust Company v. Coulter
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1965-03-22· cited 15×
• Matter of Guardianship of Brown
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1982-06-24· cited 14×
• Law v. Law
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-04-10· cited 9×
• McNeil v. Bennett
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2001-11-08· cited 7×
• Craven v. Wilmington Teachers Ass'n
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1946-05-28· cited 5×

Other cases named McNeil v. McNeil

12 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• McNeil v. McNeil
  Ninth Circuit· 1909-05-31· cited 16×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California· 1897-01-11· cited 11×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-09-17· cited 6×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1946-03-28· cited 6×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1921-10-15· cited 6×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Utah Supreme Court· 1922-12-20· cited 5×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1917-05-17· cited 3×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1947-12-23· cited 2×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1983-11-04· cited 1×
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-07-14
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Supreme Court· 2014-10-06
• McNeil v. McNeil
  Supreme Court· 2014-12-08