Printing House v. Trustees’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 711 · 1881
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1955
14 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.
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.
“When a charitable trust has been fully constituted and the funds have passed out of the hands and control of the donors, and into the hands of the proper institution, or organization, intended for its administration, the Court of Chancery, or some analogous jurisdiction, becomes its legal guardian and protector, and will take care that the objects of the trust are duly pursued and the funds rightfully appropriated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wemme v. Noyes
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.