Chadwick v. Chadwick’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1979
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be in accordance with the testator's intentions and a just construction of the provisions of the will on the subject, to give to that church, under the circumstances, a reasonable time within which to comply with the condition, and, on failure to do so, it will be decreed to have forfeited the legacy, and the legacy will be decreed to have lapsed. [ Id. ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The condition on which that legacy (to a church) was given has not been performed, and the legacy has, therefore, lapsed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Whippany Church appears to be willing to perform the condition on which the legacy to it was given.”
1 later decision 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.