Wilber v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably Leeds v. Harrison (1952), State v. Cooper (1957)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 MacKenzie v. Trustees of the Presbytery · Noice v. Schnell · 133 N.J. Eq. 421 - In Re the Estate of Fisler · Woodstown National Bank, C., Co. v. Snelbaker · George v. Braddock
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.
““A general charitable intention is outstanding in these provisions. The design of the trust created by the tenth paragraph is the advancement of education and learning, and therefore' it is a- charitable trust. Trusts for the advancement of knowledge by research or otherwise are charitable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A trust is charitable if the subject property is devoted to the accomplishment of purposes which are beneficial or may be supposed to be beneficial to the community. This is the prime distinction between private trusts and charitable trusts. The question is whether the accomplishment of the purpose is of such social interest to the community as to justify the dedication of the property to that purpose in perpetuity. Are the persons to benefit of a sufficiently large or indefinite class to give rise to community interest in the trust? Will the trust in operation advance the religious, educational, eleemosynary, governmental or other charitable interests of the community? Woodstown National Bank v. Snelbaker, 136 N. J. Eq. 62, (Ch. 1944); affirmed, 137 N. J. Eq. 256 (E. & A. 1945); Scott on Trusts, sections 348, 364, 368.” (page 174.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Random Scientific Notes Seeking the Essentials in Place and Space.” The lower court refused to do so, finding the writings”
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.