Rekdahl v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children of Texas v. Stahl (1980), San Antonio Area Foundation v. Lang (2000)
31 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 Chadwick v. Bristow · Edgerly v. Barker · 48 Cal. App. 2d 249 - Randall v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n · Singer v. Singer · Kelly v. Womack
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he most common application of the cy pres doctrine is in the law of charitable trusts. If it is impossible, impractical, or illegal to carry out the terms of a charitable trust, and the settlor has indicated a general charitable purpose, the courts will authorize the substitution of another charitable scheme within the general purpose.”
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.