Allred v. Beggs’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 37 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen a fund or property is so given that it may or may not be used for charity, or . for a charitable object of a public character, without violating the directions of the will, the case is not one for enforcing the gift as a charity in a suit by the Attorney General. ... In this respect it is evident that the will creates a purely personal trust in the executor.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eldridge v. Marshall National Bank · Coffee v. William Marsh Rice University

2. ““I further direct that should my executor, with the advice of my said sister, Gertrude Farmer, decide that they should give away any of my property in kind to any charity or for any purpose they may consider worthy (emphasis ours) then they shall have the right to do so, and such property shall not be sold by my executor as herein directed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Taysum v. El Paso Nat. Bank

3. ““I devise and direct that all the net proceeds from the sale of my estate as herein provided shall under the direction of my executor, with the advice of my said sister Gertrude Farmer, be divided and distributed and given to such charities and worthy objects as they, my executor, and my sister, shall determine * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Taysum v. El Paso Nat. Bank