Benbow v. . Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1942
1 district · 3 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That every person claiming property under an instrument directing its conversion must take it in the character which that instrument has impressed upon it, and its subsequent devolution and disposition, will be governed by the rules applicable to that species oí property.” Shepherd, C. J., in Benbow v. Moore, 114 N. C. 263 , 19 S. E 156 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If, as we bave seen, tlie principle of equitable conversion applies, there is no question but that the sale, when made, relates to the death of the testator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.