Equitable Trust Co. v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Monroe Park v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (1983), Wilmington Trust Co. v. Sloane (1947)
26 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 Manice v. . Manice · Hutchison v. Ross · Chamberlain v. . Chamberlain · Claflin v. Claflin · Wilmington Trust Co. v. Wilmington Trust Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The formal validity of a will, disposing of personal property, is always governed by the law of the testator’s domicile at the time of his death. * * * Unless a contrary intent appears, the essential validity of a bequest of personal property, whether in trust or otherwise, is governed by the same rule.” And as to the administration question, he said: “* * * Ordinarily, in such cases the question of state policy is only a matter of legitimate interest in the jurisdiction in which the bequest is to be held and administered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A will of an interest in land is governed by the law of the state where the land is in spite of a direction in the will to convert the land into personalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The validity and effect of a will of an interest in land are determined by the law of the state where the land is.”
1 later decision 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.