Kohtz v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 1959 · most notably Armstrong v. Barber (1909), Fifer v. Allen (1907)
37 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 Moore v. Lyons · Scofield v. Olcott · Vanderzee v. Slingerland · Livingston v. . Greene · Arnold v. Alden
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a testator by his will creates a trust and fixes the duration thereof, his direction will, if not in violation of the rule against perpetuities, be given effect and the trust will continue for the time indicated; but where a testator does not specifically indicate the time for which the trust is to continue, his intention must, if possible, be determined from the entire will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Merrill
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.