Peyton v. Wehrhane’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp. (1939), Wehrhane v. Peyton (1948)
36 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 Booth v. Baptist Church of Christ of Poughkeepsie · In Re the Estate of Hayes · 2 E.H. Smith 519 - Williams v. . Montgomery · Colonial Trust Co. v. Brown · Mitchell v. Reeves
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two explanations of these provisions,” said the court, “have considerable plausibility. The mere reading of the language used suggests that they were taken from some standard form, without regard to the rather peculiar nature of the interests sought to be created in this will; thus, the provisions that ‘any trustee appointed by this will’ might resign from any trust and that in the event of the death of any of the trustees the powers conferred might be exercised by ' such trustees as should qualify and survive from time to time, hardly fit into the scheme of the peculiar estate which vested in the defendants. Again, it may well have been in the mind of the testator that in the letters he expected to leave he intended to request the trustees to set up various trusts.””
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.