Lear v. Manser’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2006
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““to be paid by him to such person or persons, or to such institution as shall care for me in my last sickness, such payment to be made to the person or persons, or institution, or any or all of them as may in the discretion of my said executor be equitably entitled thereto, and the payment by my said executor and receipt taken by him therefor shall be a sufficient voucher and .discharge to him under the provisions of. this item. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It could be executed by another trustee appointed by the court if necessary, for the duty imposed upon the trustee, and the discretion given to him in the exercise of that duty, are imperative and not optional, they were intended by the testator to be executed at all events.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moss v. Axford
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.