Frye v. Community Chest’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1979
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
Relies on Amos v. Toolen · Tarver v. Weaver · Harris v. Alston · Schowalter v. Schowalter · Underwood v. Underwood
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without further discussion we are of opinion the Fourth Item of the will bequeaths to Mrs. Nathalie King Warriner a life estate only in 1/3 of the residuary estate, with no power of disposition, or entrenchment on the principal or corpus of the estate, and that such principal in whatever form invested at the time of her death, passes to the remaindermen, the nephews and nieces of the testator, who shall survive her, share and share alike. Their right of possession will accrue at the date of her death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The *Page 637 will, as before noted, bequeaths this property to the life tenant 'as trustee.' This, as we have held, is an express declaration of a trust relation, further evidencing that the first taker has a life estate only. We do not hold this means a different character of trust from that inhering in the position of a life tenant toward the remaindermen, often deemed a quasi trust because it is [in] connection with the property rights of a life tenant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Inasmuch as the testator's intent was to give Mrs. Warriner the full benefit of the net income on the estate to be bequeathed, we think and hold that the costs and expenses incident to the management of the estate by an outside trustee, if appointed, should be a charge on the corpus of the estate, and not go in diminution of the income of the life tenant. 65 C.J. p. 947, § 868.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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