Smith v. Renne’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2008
15 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 Brandenburg v. Thorndike · Plummer v. Roberts · Dickenson v. City of Anna · Knight v. Gregory · Reid v. Voorhees
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is finally contended, however, that the principal trust fund is not disposed of by the will, but this is no objection in a charitable trust, as such a trust may continue' indefinitely, and property be tied up forever in the hands of trustees without violation of the rule against perpetuities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is also the rule that if by any possibility the estate will not vest within the time required by the rule the devise is void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.