Hull v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2005
22 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 Kellett v. Shepard · Himmel v. Himmel · Carter v. Lewis · DuBois v. Judy · Hoblit v. Howser
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general rule that where the donees of a testamentary gift constitute a class, and the only words importing the gift are found in the direction to divide, distribute or pay or to sell the property and distribute or pay over the proceeds in the future, the gift will not vest until the time arrives to pay, divide or distribute, and the members of the class who are to take are to be ascertained at that time and not at the death of the testator. It [the rule] is invoked by the' courts to aid in determining the vested or contingent character of future interests.” ( 399 Ill. 347, 357 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sixth: It is also my will, that after the decease of my said daughter, should she die without leaving issue surviving her, that in such a case I hereby order and direct that my said farm be sold and converted into cash, and after the payment of all necessary expenses that the proceeds of said sale be divided between my legal heirs in accordance with the laws of descent of the State of Illinois.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spaugh v. Ferguson“The words used by a testator are to be understood in their ordinary sense unless a different meaning is indicated by the context " (emphasis added)). Thus, the ultimate "question for the Court [construing a will] is `not what the testator meant to say, but what he meant by what he did say'”
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.