Boyd v. Fanelli’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Gasque v. Sitterding (1967), Central Carolina Bank & Trust Company v. Bass (1965)
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Weiss v. Soto · Conrad v. Conrad's · Chavis v. Myrick · James v. Peoples National Bank · Commonwealth v. Wellford
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at [the beneficiary's] death the principal of said fund shall pass to my next of kin, per capita.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he phrase, 'my next of kin,' as used by the testatrix means her closest blood kin and does not mean those who would be her heirs or distributees under the statute of descent and distribution. 20 * * * 21 "She resorted to a class designation, all members of which would be the same degree of kinship to her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when considered along with other pertinent parts of the will, makes it quite clear that [the] testatrix intended to defer the vesting of what was left of the corpus of the trust fund until the life tenant's death.”
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.