Powell v. Hatch’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1975
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Howe v. Wilson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principles governing the execution of powers of appointment to charitable trusts have been so recently the subject of thorough consideration here that we do not feel ourselves called upon to enter on a further discussion of them now. The same rules of law that controlled the case of Howe v. Wilson, 91 Mo. 45 , 3 S. W. 390 [ 60 Am. Rep. 226 ], govern the one at bar. The only difference of any consequence between the facts presented in the two cases is that in the earlier one tho discretion was to be exercised among tho ‘charitable institutions of St. Louis/ while in the present no limitation with respect to locality appears. We do not regard this difference in the facts as affecting, in any wise, tho application of the principles established in the former case.” 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Irwin v. Swinney
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.