Chandler v. Lally’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2013
12 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 Dodge v. Anna Jaques Hospital · Somerby v. Buntin · Davis v. Coburn · Sawyer v. Cook · Shea v. Shea
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Doubtless [the uncle] could have declared an oral trust for their benefit in personal property owned by himself, but he could not declare himself trustee for their benefit of [the beneficiary’s] interest in the fund without the consent of [the beneficiary].”
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.