Moreover, Yoritomo continued to rely on Yoshinobu, for example, at the time of the burial of Yoshitomo's cremains Yoshinobu and Koreyoshi were allowed to serve near them at Shochoju-in Temple on October 1185, and his precedence could be said to be the top of gokenin (an immediate vassal of the Shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods) as Monyo (blood line, lineage, connected by blood) of the Minamoto clan.
また文治元年（1185年）9月の勝長寿院での義朝の遺骨埋葬の際には、義信と惟義の2人が源義隆の子源頼隆と共に遺骨に近侍することを許されるなど、義信への頼朝の信頼は最後まで変わらず、この時期の席次において源氏門葉として御家人筆頭ともいえる座を占めている。