Watson v. Brower’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1983
5 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on President of the Manhattan Co. v. Armour · Blauvelt v. the Citizens Trust Co. · Rosencrans v. Fry · In Re Estate of Fox · 135 N.J. Eq. 603 - National State Bank of Newark v. Stewart
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Clause (5) Forty per cent (40%) thereof to my Trustees hereinafter named, in trust, however, for the following purposes: To hold the same until the death of the last survivor of the following described persons, namely, my chauffeur, Fred Brower, my friend Jerome Payet, all persons who at the time of my death are employees of Jacques Wolf & Co., all former employees of Jacques Wolf & Co. who retired prior to my death after having served for twenty-five (25) or more years with Jacques Wolf & Co., and the wives of all such employees and retired employees who had been married to them for at least twenty (20) years at the time of my death; to invest and keep the same invested and to make the following payments therefrom: * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the last analysis, the pension plan the testator created was intended to be a company plan which the company might later supplement with a plan of its own. We say this because, although the employees are the immediate beneficiaries, yet there is a concurring purpose to benefit the company, for the plan ultimately is designed to encourage and reward future service with the company, no different in this aspect from a plan financed by the company itself.””
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.