Berry v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2018
9 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 310 So. 2d 93 - Hero Lands Company v. Texaco, Inc. · 360 So. 2d 1331 - Ardoin v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. · Andrepont v. Acadia Drilling Co. · Fontenot v. Marquette Casualty Co. · Joyner v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
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.
“[t]o create a legal obligation enforceable by the beneficiary, there must be certainty as to the benefit to accrue to the beneficiary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An inter vivos trust may be created only by authentic act or by act under private signature executed in the presence of two witnesses and duly acknowledged by the settlor or by the affidavit of one of the attesting witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“But a contract, in which anything is stipulated for the benefit of a third person, who has signified his assent to accept it, can not be revoked as to the advantage stipulated in his favor without his consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.