Toms v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 1960 · most notably In re Estate of Walkerly (1895), Sioux City Terminal Railroad & Warehouse Co. v. Trust Co. of North America (1897)
5 federal appellate · 50 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.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in the will which requires the trustees for any beneficial trust purpose to hold any estate beyond one for a term of years, and when this is so the general doctrine is clear — as well under the statutes referred to as at common law — -that they take no greater absolute estate than is co-extensive with the trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Merrill““While there has been some variance among the authorities concerning the legal distinctions between vested and contingent estates, they chiefly agree first in favoring the vesting of interests, and second in treating future interests as vested where there is any present interest in the income of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Richards
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.