Pritchett v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1974
2 district · 13 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 Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings · Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · Estate of Hinckley · Coggeshall v. Pelton · Howe v. Wilson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the devise he for charitable uses, it is immaterial that the objects of the charity are uncertain and indefinite. Indeed it is said that vagueness is, in some respects-, essential to a good gift for a public charity, and that a public charity begins where uncertainty in the recipient begins. ””
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.