Piatt v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 79 · 1963
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1998
5 federal appellate ·
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 Morgan v. Commissioner · Helvering v. Gowran · Helvering v. Stuart · Williams v. Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force, Et Al. · Hanks v. McDanell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) The surviving spouse must be entitled for life to all the income from the entire interest or a specific portion of the entire interest, or to a specific portion of all the income from the entire interest. 20”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All of the rest and residue of my personal estate consisting of my personal property of any nature or description whatsoever after the payment of debts and these specific bequests above set out, I give and bequeath the same to my beloved wife, Jane, for and during her natural life. She shall have the power, right and authority whenever, in her opinion, it shall be necessary for her maintenance, comfort or well-being to expend all or any part of the principal of my said personal property without being required to account therefor, and she shall have the further right, power and authority to sell, lease, encumber or otherwise dispose of any and all items of personal property belonging to me and to give any purchaser a good fee simple title thereto. 7 "Upon the death of my beloved wife, Jane, the remainder of my personal estate I give and bequeath to my sister, Nancy Piatt Young, in trust for her life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Piatt v. Gray“Aside from the express purposes for which the wife devised her property to her husband, and, as it would seem, to put beyond all question his right to dispose of the corpus of the property in any manner he saw proper during his lifetime, she said: `No one shall be permitted to question his disposition of said estate or any part thereof.' That, and other language found in the will, clearly differentiates this case from the many cited ones in brief of the guardian ad litem to the effect that an ordinary life tenant of either real or personal property, with no enlargement of his powers as such, may not dispose of the corpus of the property for any other purpose except those named in his title paper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Piatt v. Gray
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.