McDonald v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) That upon the death of the testator, James McDonald, the appellant, James McDonald, Jr., took a present vested interest in the undivided one-half of the testator’s estate after the payment of debts, specific legacies, annuities, and costs of administration, the corpus thereof to be paid to the said James by the executors under the will when his oldest child living at the testator’s death shall reach the age of 30 years. “(2) That pending the payment to said James of the principal of his one-half interest in said estate he is entitled to receive, and the said executors and trustees shall pay to him, in addition to the annuities provided for him by the codicil of said will, fhe cash income upon the said one-half interest accrued thereon to this date and the future cash income thereon from time to time as the samo shall accrue heroa tier.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McDonald v. Fulton Trust Co. of New York