White v. . Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1962 · most notably Sewall v. Wilmer (1882), Farnum v. Pennsylvania Co. for Insurance on Lives & Granting Annuities (1916)
37 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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.
“‘‘ This doctrine proceeds upon the argument that by doing a thing which, independently of the power, would be nugatory, she (the donee of the power) conclusively evinced her intention to execute the power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the intention to execute must be apparent and clear, so that the transaction is not fairly susceptible of any other interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Simpson
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.