Wyeth v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2017
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Prince De Bearn v. Winans · Balls v. Dampman · Pope v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Stahl v. Emery · Albert v. Albert
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he donor and the donee of the power being the same person, the intention of one is of necessity the intention of the other. * * * [T]he rule excluding one's creditors from appointment was apparently adopted to prevent frustration of the donor's intent * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he will itself and the situation of the testatrix at the time of her death, when considered in the light of her circumstances at the time of its execution, must guide us in arriving at an answer. It is seen that the testatrix, in order to accomplish the purposes and objects expressed in her will, fully realized the inadequacy of her individual estate; furthermore she must have anticipated that if she had long to live, her individual estate would be entirely consumed, and this is practically what happened, for notwithstanding her withdrawal from the trust funds of almost $5000, and the loans from her brother, amounting with interest to more than $9000, her gross individual estate deducted from the above sums shows a deficiency in excess of $11,000. Accordingly, in order to have her brother’s indebtedness paid at her death and to provide for those whom she considered to be the just objects of her bounty, she adopted a method which to her seemed simple, convenient and expedient by blending the trust estate with her individual estate and executed a will with intent to dispose of the estates thus combined____” 176 Md. at 374-75 , 4 A. 2d at 755 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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