Mesce v. Gradone’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
August 1995
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 47 N.J. Eq. 279 - Morse v. Hackensack Savings Bank · Martling v. Martling · Savings Investment Trust Co. v. Little · Cowan v. Storms · Phillips v. Vermeule
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this State, it is the intention of the settlor of the trust that governs and not the desires of the beneficiaries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.