Nellis v. Rickard’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Estate of Phelps (1920), Estate of Troy (1931)
30 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 Estate of Walkerly · Harrison v. . Harrison · Van Schuyver v. . Mulford · Tiers v. . Tiers · In re the Estate of Hendy
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is of such a nature as to make it indivisible, and incapable of being carried out as to that trust which is clearly legal, because of the invalidity of the other trust,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Whitney
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.