Heyl Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably Borsch Estate (1949), Grote Trust (1957)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Riverside Trust Co. v. Twitchell · Morgan'S Estate · Fox's Estate · Miller's Estate
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a trust of this kind has been created, the law holds that the donor has an individual right of property in the execution of the trust; and to deprive him of it would be a fraud on his generosity. For the law to appropriate a gift to a person not intended would be an invasion of the donor’s private dominion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schreiber v. Kellogg
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.