Williams v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1999
15 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 Goodloe v. Woods · Allen's v. Virginia Trust Co. · Cochran v. Richmond & Alleghany R. · Dillard's Adm'r v. Dillard · Darling's v. Cumming
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where no compensation at all is named in the will, the rule* is that the allowance shall be reasonable, being usually 5% on receipts, subject to increase or reduction of this rate under peculiar circumstances. These propositions are not controverted and are well settled. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a testator fixes the compensation for an executor or trustee under his will and the executor or trustee named therein accepts the appointment, he is entitled to as much and is limited to as little as the testator has fixed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Estate of Fine
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.