Equitable Trust Co. v. Snader’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably Wilmington Trust Co. v. Wilmington Trust Co. (1942), Wilmington Trust Co. v. Wilmington Trust Co. (1935)
43 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 Transfer Tax Upon the Estate of Dows · Estate of Lawrence · Appeal of Coggins · Whitman's Estate · Taylor v. Crosson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Considerable liberality, however, is to be indulged in favor of the donor's wishes, for after all the owner of property has, as he ought to have, the right to attach conditions to his bounty which within reasonable limits should be respected.”
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.