Randolph v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2022
11 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 Bates v. Gillett · Lombard v. Witbeck · Dana v. . Murray · Snyder v. Snyder · Henderson v. Harness
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is essential in the provision and constitution of testamentary trusts that the testator adequately indicate by the terms of his will his intention to create such a trust by using language sufficient to-sever the legal from the equitable estate, and he must with certainty identify the beneficiaries and the property out of which the trust is to take effect. . . . The use of the word ‘trust’ in a will is not conclusive on the question whether or not a trust is created. ’ ’”
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.