Kabisius v. Brooke’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably Estate of Tarrant (1951), 75 Cal. App. 2d 426 - Clippinger v. Brearton (1946)
45 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 Collier v. Lindley · Heuser v. Harris · Estate of McDole · Howard v. American Peace Society · White v. Mayor of Newark
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the owner of property devises or bequeaths it for charitable purposes and not only does not name a trustee but also does not use language indicating that the property is to be held upon trust, nevertheless a charitable trust will be created. In such a case the court will appoint a trustee to administer the trust.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“go to the poor soldiers Letterman Hospital”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.