Thomas v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably 140 W. Va. 422 - Goetz v. Old National Bank of Martinsburg (1954), Henderson v. Troy Bank & Trust Co. (1948)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Village of Hinsdale v. Chicago City Missionary Society · Collins v. Lyon, Inc. · Jones' Unknown Heirs v. Dorchester · Skeen v. Clinchfield Coal Corp. · Moore v. Downham
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * in the building and maintenance of a home for destitute and dependent aged white people, * * *,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear . . . that it will not be possible, with the available funds, to establish and maintain on a large scale a home for the care of the “destitute and dependent aged white people, both men and women, . . .” But it is, we think, by no means clear that the fund will be insufficient to care for a small number of such people. Indeed, we think the preponderance of the evidence shows that this can be done,... * * * In the case before us the testator desired that this fund be used for a worthy charitable purpose. It is clear that he did not intend that his heirs should receive it. While the income from the fund may not be sufficient to maintain and establish a home on the scale of some other institutions of like character, there is no reason why it should not be applied as far as is practicable to carry out the testator’s intent. Surely, the fact that the fund may not be adequate to provide for the needs of all of the indigent aged of Wythe county is no reason why it should be taken from the small number who may be aided thereby and turned over to the heirs, contrary to the intent of the testator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear . . . that it will not be possible, with the available funds, to establish and maintain on a large scale a home for the care of the "destitute and dependent aged white people, both men and women, . . ." But it is, we think, by no means clear that the fund will be insufficient to care for a small number of such people. Indeed, we think the preponderance of the evidence shows that this can be done, . . .”
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.