Caine v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 246 · 1950
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1978 · most notably Atchison v. Hall (1970), Walsh v. National Savings & Trust Co. (1957)
17 federal appellate · 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 Pyne v. Pyne · Jewell v. Graham · Bunker v. Jones · Scott v. Powell
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the death of the survivor of said Anne S. Payne and Estella Caine, [the life beneficiaries of the trust estate] the trusts herein created shall cease and determine and my said Trustee shall pay, set over, assign, convey and deliver my entire estate and’ property then in its possession, absolutely and in fee simple, share and share alike, unto my nephews, Edwin D. Payne, Edward O. Caine and Bertram Caine, or the survivors or survivor of them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The basic, always controlling, rule in the construction of wills is the intent of the testator. If that intent can be discerned in the language of the will, read, of course, in the light of the surrounding circumstances, there is an end to the matter. If it cannot be so discerned, the testator must be presumed to have intended the result which the law has theretofore attached to the language which he chose to use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.