Young v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 782 · 1879
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1980 · most notably Helvering v. New York Trust Co. (1934), Potter v. Couch (1891)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Doe Lessee of Poor v. Considine · Noble v. Andrews
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The extent of the legal interest of a trustee in an estate given to him in trust is measured not by words of inheritance or otherwise, hut by the object and extent of the trust upon which the estate is given. On this principle two rules of construction have been adopted by courts: First, wherever a trust is create!! the legal estate sufficient for the purposes of the trust shall, if possible, be implied in the trustee, whatever may be the limitation in the instrument, whether to him. and his heirs or not. And second, although a legal estate may be limited to a trustee to the fullest extent as to him and his heirs, yet it shall not be carried farther than the complete execution of the trust necessarily requires.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This subject is considered and the authorities fully reviewed by Mr. Justice Swayne, in Doe, Lessee of Poor v. Considine, 6 Wall, 458, 18 L.Ed. 869 , ‘It is well settled,’ says he, ‘that where no intention to the contrary appears, the language used in creating the estate will be limited and restrained to the purposes of its creation. And when they are satisfied, the estate of the trustee ceases to exist and his title becomes extinct. The extent and duration of the estate are measured by the objects of its creation.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellms v. Ellms
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.