Wagner v. Clauson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Gregg v. Gardner (1963), De Korwin v. First Nat. Bank of Chicago (1949)
30 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 Read v. . Williams · Dahmer v. Wensler · Orr v. Yates · Olliffe v. Wells · Sweeney v. . Warren
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law requires a will to be in writing and attested as provided by statute. As shown above, under certain conditions a separate writing may become a part of the will, if properly identified, and this constitutes no evasion of the statute on wills, requiring an attested writing, since it is considered a part of the will, to which the attested signatures are attached. *** * * * *** [A] bequest or devise in trust, which is subject to the testator’s future directions, or directions which may be at any time changed after the execution of the will, are void unless the directions are in writing and attested in conformity with the statute on wills.” 399 Ill. 403, 411-13 , 78 N.E.2d 203, 207-08 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`It is essential to the creation of a trust that the declaration must make reasonably certain its material terms, and that these terms include, first, the subject-matter or property embraced within the trust; second, the beneficiaries or persons in whose behalf the trust is created; third, the nature and quantity of the interests which they are to have; and, fourth, the manner in which the trust is to be performed. If any of these necessary elements is not described with certainty, no trust is created.' Marble v. Marble, 304 Ill. 229 , 136 N.E. 589, 592 ; Orr v. Yates, 209 Ill. 222 , 70 N.E. 731 ; Snyder v. Snyder, 280 Ill. 467 , 117 N.E. 465 ."”
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.