Bok v. McCaughn’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.2d 616 · 1930
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably DeJong v. Commissioner (1962), United States v. Community Services, Inc. (1951)
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Francois Fenelon v. The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia · Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings · Charles McMicken v. Freeman G Carey
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Charity, derived from the Latin caritas, originally meant love. In the thirteenth chapter of first Corinthians the revised version uses the word ‘love’ in defining the third of the three cardinal virtues, which, in King James’ version read ‘Faith, Hope and Charity.’ It was with similar emphasis on the motive which prompts action that Mr. Binney framed his approved definition of a charitable trust in his argument in the Girard will case: ‘Whatever is given for the love of God, or the love of your neighbor, in the catholic and universal sense, given from these motives and to these ends, free from the stain or taint of every consideration that is personal, private, or selfish.’ Vidal v. Girard’s Executors, 2 How. [127] 128, 11 L.Ed. 205 (1844) which is quoted by the Supreme Court in Ould v. Washington Hospital, 95 U.S. [303] 311, 24 L.Ed. 450 . Charity means such unselfish things as are wont to be done by those who are animated by the virtue of love. Thus the Supreme Court of the United States, following Chancellor Kent, Lord Lyndhurst, and Lord Camden, has defined a charitable trust as ‘a gift to a general public use, which extends to the poor as well as to the rich.’ Perin v. Carey, 24 How. [465] 506, 16 L.Ed. 701 (1860). So, also, Mr. Justice Gray speaking for the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in Jackson v. Phillipps, 14 Allen [539], 556 (1867), declared a charitable gift'to be one ‘for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`whatever is given for the love of God, or the love of your neighbor, in the catholic and universal sense, given from these motives and to these ends, free from the stain or taint of every consideration that is personal, private, or selfish.'”
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.