Giles v. Anslow’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1944 · most notably Glover v. Condell (1896), Glass v. Johnson (1921)
20 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 Walker v. Pritchard · Calkins v. Estate of Smith · Wiggins Ferry Co. v. People ex rel. Weber · Leiter v. Sheppard
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.
“It seems clear that, when the expression or desire in the will is ever so strong, it will not be construed to create a trust for others, when the will contains an expression that the devisee is nevertheless (394) to be free to act in his own discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. St. James v. Bagley.
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.