Stephens v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably Estate of Reynolds v. Commissioner (1970), Bixby v. California Trust Co. (1949)
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Melvin v. Hoffman · Ewing v. Shannahan · Walker v. Denison · Akers v. Clark · McFarland v. Bishop
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words, 'and the trust shall pass to and vest in my legal heirs, or as may be directed in my will,’ is a mere statement, by way of further limitation of the trustee’s estate, that the grantor reserves full authority to dispose of the reversion as he sees fit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is the sole beneficiary under the trust, and that no other person has any interest in the trust estate, contingent or other”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Humphreys v. Welling“the grantor had no thought of making a disposition of his estate to take effect at his death,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Humphreys v. Welling
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.