Sneed v. Pool’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1987
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Helvering v. Butterworth · Burnet v. Whitehouse · Sherman v. Moore · Clark v. Mississippi Valley Trust Co. · Carlisle v. Commissioner
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * According to the will, none of the corpus of the' estate is to be distributed during the life of Elizabeth Sneed Pool or during the existence of the trust. It is only the net income which can be. distributed to anyone; therefore, any fixed charge must be made against the gross income of the trust estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I do hereby give and bequeath to my beloved wife, BRAD LOVE SNEED, should she survive me, and for so long as she lives and remains my widow and unmarried, in cash the sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000) Dollars per year, to be paid to her by my Executors and Trustees out of my estate as a fixed charge and before the distribution and payment of .the net income of my estate as in my said Will provided.”
1 later decision 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.