Graff v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.2d 960 · 1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1965
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings · Provost of Royal Burgh v. Abercrombie · 45 App. D.C. 310 - Dinwiddie v. Metzger
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it should later appear that the income alone should not be sufficient, if accumulated for a reasonable time, to accomplish the purposes of the testator in the particular manner prescribed by him, I think that the court, upon proper proceedings, would have the power to have the same charitable purposes carried out in some more practicable manner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Graff
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.