Beecher v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Saliba v. Saliba (1947), Whittle v. Jones (1944)
35 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 Jones v. Robinson · Lyons v. Planters' Loan & Savings Bank · Wilder v. Wilder · Howard Manufacturing Co. v. Water Lot Co. · Shaprio v. Steinberg
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All express trusts are required to be in writing. Code, § 108-105. The petition need not allege that the trust was in writing, and is not subject to demurrer because failing to make such allegation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Allen“it is proper to sustain the demurrer on the ground that the agreement was not incorporated in or attached to the petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Allen
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.