Hoffner's Estate’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

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.

1. ““This money goes to the church, not by the will, but because there is no valid will, when there ought to have been one; it is a right of the church, for whose benefit the promise was made, to insist on the fulfillment of the obligation in a court of equity, in whose hands is the fund and before whom are all parties in interest.” “When a person . . . orally or in writing explicitly or impliedly declares that he holds personal property . . . for another, he thereby constitutes himself an express trustee”: Perry on Trusts and Trustees, sec. 86, p. 97.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Heim's Estate

2. ““When one procures from another a gift of the whole of that other’s estate, on a promise to give part of it at death for a special purpose, or to a particular individual, the fullfilment of the promise will be enforced in a court of equity, because to the moral obligation there is added the force of a legal one; the estate of the donor is parted with on the faith of the promise.”'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Heim's Estate

3. ““All of the above and foregoing bequests are to be in memory of my sister-in-law, Elizabeth B. Hoffner, who died February 12, 1888, in the 95th year of her age.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Heim's Estate