Geller v. Lust’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1971
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Evans v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Newlin v. Mercantile Trust Co. · Baker v. Baylies · Boynton v. Barton · Brannan v. Ely
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a gift of an aggregate sum (1) to a body of persons uncertain in number at the time of the gift, (2) to be ascertained at a future time, and (3) who are all to take in equal or some other definite proportions; the share of each being dependent for its amount upon the ultimate number of persons,”
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.