French v. Calkins’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1991
20 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 Ingraham v. Ingraham · Johnson v. Preston · Heuser v. Harris · Glover v. Condell · Mills v. Newberry
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The hospital selected must be one offering care and treatment for tubercular patients; and it is inconceivable that the testatrix intended to make a bequest for the purpose of increasing the dividends of a private hospital conducted for profit. She did not intend, and a court of equity would not permit, the diversion of the funds to such purpose. The name ordinarily implies a public institution, and the word ‘offering,’ with no condition annexed and connected with a hospital, naturally implies giving, bestowing, or providing free treatment to those suffering from a disease. The trustees are authorized, in their discretion, to select a hospital of that character to administer the fund as a public charity.””
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.