Hicks v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ithaca Trust Co. v. United States · Merchants Nat Bank of Boston v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · 88 N.J. Eq. 25 - In re the construction & declaration of rights under the will of Ungaro · Bottomley v. Bottomley · Coffin v. Watson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * I also give and bequeath unto my said wife the entire income from my estate and property from the day of my death so long as she, my said wife, shall survive, to be paid to her at different periods through each year as the same shall be available, and in case the income so directed to be paid her at any time shall be insufficient, in the opinion of my executors or trustees, to provide her with all the necessary comforts, conveniences and enjoyments of life, suited to one in her station, then, and in such case, I give unto her so much of the principal of my estate as in the opinion of said executors or trustees may be necessary for such purposes.”
2 later decisions 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.