In re John's Will’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1959 · most notably Lackland v. Walker (1899), National Bank of Greece v. Savarika (1933)
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Jones v. Habersham · Russell v. Allen · Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings · Estate of Hinckley · Chambers v. City of St. Louis
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The general rule everywhere is, whether speaking with reference to ordinary or charitable trusts, that a valid trust will never be permitted to fail for want of a trustee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Endicott v. Bratzel“The jurisdiction of the County Court to construe a will as it pertains to real property is not so apparent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. ARNOLD v. Arnold
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.