Pruner Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Burleigh Estate (1961), Dinkey Estate (1961)
78 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 London v. Kingsley · Newlin Estate · Noonan Estate · First Universalist Society of North Adams v. Boland · Eways v. Reading Parking Authority
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he doctrine of cy pres has no application in the instant case, since testator expressly provided for the reverter upon the failure of the trustees to use the land as a Home.”
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.