Fay v. Howe’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 251 - Lynch v. Spilman (1967), 40 Cal. 2d 852 - Los Angeles County Pioneer Society v. Historical Society (1953)
37 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 People ex rel. Ellert v. Cogswell · Estate of Hinckley · Carpenter v. Cook · In Re Estate of Upham · In re the Estate of Pearsons
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case of a private trust there must be certainty as to the beneficiaries, but in charitable trusts individuals are not named, for the reason that, if named, the gift becomes a donation to individuals, and, losing the character of indefiniteness as to persons,--which is of the essence of a charitable trust,--it is no longer a charitable trust. Inherent in every charitable trust is the ... indefiniteness of the beneficiaries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“aid of deserving aged native-born in the town of Southboro, Mass.”
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.