Gray v. Watters’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The will does not specifically name the persons or institutions that are to receive the charity. It leaves the beneficiaries to be chosen and named by the person appointed to distribute the charity. It is competentfor a testator to bestow a charity upon a person or institution to be chosen or named by a trustee or executor. In that case, there is no uncertainty of the beneficiary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Ditz's Estate

2. “in the way you think I would want it done for religious purposes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Small's Estate

3. “toward which equity adopts a liberal attitude.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Small's Estate