Green v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Saltzgaver v. Saltzgaver (1944), 57 Md. App. 662 - Dobbyn v. Dobbyn (1984)
26 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 Trustees of the German Lutheran Evangelical St. Matthew's Congregation v. Heise · Tayloe v. Mosher · Bailey v. Bailey · Burt v. Gill · Nicodemus National Bank v. Snyder
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.
““It is a cardinal rule of construction, that the law favors the earliest vesting of estates, and the court will hold an estate to be vested whenever it can fairly do so without doing violence to the language of the will. [Citations.] Consequently, the court will never hold that the testator intended that any income accruing during any portion of the life estate should accumulate for the benefit of the remaindermen, unless an indication of such intention appears expressly on the face of the will or arises from its provisions by necessary implication.” • ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . [W]hen any calculations or statements are required, all the pleadings, exhibits and proofs are referred to him, so that he will be enabled to investigate the muse fully and put it in proper order for the action of the Court.” Id. 574 . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Brodsky
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.