Fulton Trust Co. v. Trowbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably Berkeley v. Berkeley (1965), Corcoran v. Department of Social Services (2004)
26 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 Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States v. Slade · Stearns v. Stearns · Ellis v. Darden · In re the Estate of Guilmartin · Sutton v. Hancock
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is nothing in the will which can be construed as a prevision of adoption or provision for contingency”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To provide for a contingency is to prepare for the happening implied by its nature. Provision for, assumes and implies prevision of the possible event, foresight enough of the chance of its happening to indicate that any present undertaking, upon which its assumed realization might exert a natural and proper influence, was entered upon in full contemplation of it as a future possibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]s far CT Page 6253 as applies from [the will's] wording; Peter might have continued indefinitely to be merely a member of the household.”
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.