Thompson Will’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Buchanan v. Brentwood Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. (1974), Truver v. Kennedy (1967)
41 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 O'LEARY v. McGuinness · Howard Savings Inst. of Newark v. Peep · Estate of Smith · Wilbur's Estate · Waterbury Trust Co. v. Porter
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`sufficient words to create a definite subject, and a certain or ascertained object; and to these requisites may be added another, viz, that the terms of the trust should be sufficiently declared . . . .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Appellee[-executrix] contends that the omission in the 20th paragraph of the words `in trust' or `trustee' especially in view of the presence of the words `in trust' in the 19th paragraph negatives the existence of a trust. Such contention lacks merit. While the presence or absence of the words `in trust' or `trustee' must be given consideration, the presence or the absence of such words is not controlling in determining the existence or non-existence of a trust. Tunnell's Estate, 325 Pa. 554 , 190 A. 906 ; Sheets' Estate, 52 Pa. 257 . * * * * * * A study of the 20th paragraph of the [W]ill indicates that, while [appellant, who is named under the testator's Will to act on his behalf,] is nominally an executor, actually he is a trustee clothed with the duties of a trustee." (Emphasis added) (Footnote omitted) Id. 416 Pa. at 254 , 206 A.2d at 25 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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