Equitable Trust Co. v. Proctor’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1974
19 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 Disston's Estate · Roe v. Doe · Shepard v. Burr
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Expressions used in connection with a gift of succeeding interests, such as ‘after the death of’, or ‘then living’, though they refer unequivocally to the time of the death of the donee of a prior interest, do not necessarily evince an intent contrary to acceleration upon renunciation by the donee of the prior interest.” [ 27 Del. Ch. 151 , 32 A. 2d 424 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the principle is based upon the presumed intention of the testator, there need be no distinction made between vested and contingent remainders in its application.” [5 Boyce (28 Del.) 545, 93 A. 375 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.