Scott v. Powell, and Four Other Cases

How courts have described this case

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

• “[TJhere is no such thing as property held in trust without anybody being entitled to the principal if the trust expires.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Callnon v. Winrott
  California Supreme Court· 1969-01-20· cited 41×
• Caine v. Payne
  D.C. Circuit· 1950-05-08· cited 12×
• Rearden v. Riggs National Bank of Washington
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1996-05-31· cited 10×
• In re the Accounting of Widmann
  New York Surrogate's Court· 1952-09-09· cited 8×
• Diana Kearny Powell v. National Savings and Trust Company, Successor Trustee
  D.C. Circuit· 1961-12-18· cited 4×
• Episcopal Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital v. Goodwin
  D.C. Circuit· 1960-04-21· cited 3×
• Noreen v. Sparks
  District of Columbia· 1952-04-02· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  D.C. Circuit· 1960-04-21

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Provident Trust Co.
  Supreme Court· 1934-02-05· cited 174×
• Estate of Spiegel v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1949-01-17· cited 162×
• Copenhaver v. Pendleton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-11-13· cited 39×
• Reeves v. American Security & Trust Co.
  Supreme Court· 1940-12-09· cited 36×
• Pyne v. Pyne
  D.C. Circuit· 1946-03-04· cited 23×
• Conner v. Waring
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1880-01-28· cited 15×
• Slack v. Downing
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1930-03-25· cited 14×
• Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh v. McCaughn
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1927-08-12· cited 13×
• American Security & Trust Co. v. Sullivan
  District of Columbia· 1947-07-28· cited 11×
• Young v. Munsey Trust Co.
  D.C. Circuit· 1940-03-25· cited 11×
• Jewell v. Graham
  D.C. Circuit· 1928-02-06· cited 10×
• Stitzel-Weller Distillery v. Wickard
  D.C. Circuit· 1941-02-03· cited 9×
• Reeves v. American Security & Trust Co.
  D.C. Circuit· 1940-08-05· cited 4×
• Phillips v. Behrens
  District of Columbia· 1948-12-10· cited 3×