Wright v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1940
6 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 Hooper v. Bradbury · Teele v. Hathaway
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every case turns upon the intention of the testator as expressed in his will. The facts, however, that the right of property is vested in the petitioners [legatees] during their minority, and that the trust was created only that during their minority the property might be held and managed by trustees, are significant in determining the disposition which the testator intended to be made of the income. The beneficial owner of trust property is the owner of the income of it, unless some other intention is expressed. (Wright v. White, 136 Mass. 470 -476.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buchanan v. Hunter
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.