Hoops v. Stephan’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 1990 · most notably Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. Lyman (1961), Zeoli v. Commissioner of Social Services (1979)
2 district · 32 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 In Re the Accounting of the Manufacturers National Bank of Troy · Holden v. . Strong · Rezzemini v. . Brooks · Mitchell v. Reeves · In Re the Accounting of First Trust & Deposit Co.
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.
“The primary question in this class of cases always is, Does the will constitute an absolute gift of support and maintenance which it makes a charge upon the income from the estate and upon principal? If, so, then the private income of the beneficiary cannot be considered. If, however, the gift is of income coupled with a provision that the principal may be invaded in case of need, the private income of the beneficiary must be considered in determining whether such need exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a question of interpretation whether the beneficiary is entitled to support out of the trust fund even though he has other resources. The inference is that he is so entitled.”
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.