Rhodes v. Yater’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * we will not presume in advance that the trustees will violate their trust or will refuse to perform their duties. Human society is founded upon the virtue of its members, not upon their wickedness, and this court must presume integrity rather than dishonesty. The testator has selected his trustees, and has, without doubt, named men in whom he had full confidence and to whose character he was willing to trust the control of this fund. We cannot presume in advance that his confidence was misplaced."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Mills'will · Baasch v. Webb

2. “* * * it is generally held that the beneficiaries need not be named nor even identified as belonging to any particular class or locality. This should be the true rule, for the inherent idea of a public charity is that its benefits shall reach an indefinite number of people, and the broader the benevolence of the giver the wider his beneficence extends, and the greater in number and more impossible of identification become the recipients of his bounty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Mills'will

3. “`for the purpose of evangelization and the publication of manuscripts,' theretofore prepared by him,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Mills'will