Gadd v. Stoner’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1955 · most notably Hardy v. Mayhew (1910), 135 Cal. App. 2d 672 - Hill v. Thomas (1955)
28 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 John Smith v. Robert Bell · Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Howard v. Carusi · Jones v. Jones · Bradley v. Carnes
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule, that where an estate is given to a person generally, or indefinitely, with a power of disposition, it carries a fee; and the only exception to the rule is, where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal. In that particular and special case, the devisee for life will not take an estate in fee, notwithstanding the distinct and naked gift of a power of disposition of the reversion.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ In the same connection it is said that there is no limitation on the power of sale. But if the estate vested in her is less than a fee, certainly the limitation of good faith will be affixed by law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ The question is whether the power which follows [the power of sale] was intended to be unlimited, or limited to' specific purposes. We think it was not unlimited. The testator has manifested an intention of charging his entire estate with the burden of the care of his wife, has given her a power of sale and reinvestment with that end in view, and has just as distinctly manifested the purpose that the residue shall go to certain named legatees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dills v. La Tour
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.