Spindle v. Shreve’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 542 · 1884
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Blair v. Commissioner (1937), National Surety Co. v. State Bank (1903)
29 federal appellate · 9 district · 29 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 Nichols Assignee v. Eaton et al. · Williams v. . Thorn · Nichols v. Levy
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That it cannot ho doubted that it to competent for testators and grantors, by will or deed, to establish trusts, both of real and personal property, and of rents, issues, and profits, and produce of the same, by appropriation and limitation and power to trustees, which shall secure the application of such bounty to the personal and family uses during the life of the beneficiary, so that it. shall not be subject to alienation, either by voluntary act on Ms part or in invititm by bis creditors. The limits within which such provision, may bo made and administered of coarse must be found in the law of that jurisdiction which is the situs of the property in case of real estate, and in case of personalty whore the trust was created, or is to bo administered, according to circumstances; and in determining these limits that law declares how far and by what forms and modes the institution of properly may be permitted to' accommodate itself to the will and convenience of. individuals, without prejudice to public interests ami policy; by what limitations and instruments its usual Incidents may be affected and altered, so as to effectuate the intention of parties; how far the dominion implied in the idea of property may be extended, so as to limit the future dominion of those who succeed to the beneficial enjoyment. Tt follows that the judgment in each case must bo determined by the positive provision of the law of the localities which govern it, and the particular terms of the instrume”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raynolds v. Hanna
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.