Adams v. . Perry’s Empirical Analysis

1871

Citation profile

cited by 42 later decisions

cited 1 times by the Supreme Court

states following

January 1973

most recently cited

40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1973 · most notably McArthur v. Scott (1885), Townshend v. . Frommer (1891)

40 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“give to the corporation described therein capacity to take property granted or devised to them in trust for the purposes therein specified; but do not authorize the creation of any trust of which such corporations shall be the beneficiaries, while others are the trustees, not warranted by the existing law, or give any validity to any such trust. To render these statutes applicable, the property must be given to the corporation upon some trust thereby authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. In Re Proving the Last Will & Testament of Griffin
“* * * the board may fix, and establish such rates therefor as a whole, or for any particular study as shall be in their judgment for the best interests of the institution, and may in their discretion, remit to any particular student, or class of students , the whole, or any part of these charges. This is within the power of all the colleges and academies of the State having charters like the one in question. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. (1973)
““I should ’have found no difficulty in sustaining the bequest of the residue, had it been made directly to the corporation, or if capable of being so construed as to vest the title of the corpus in the corporation, subject to the trusts and conditions specified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. In re Daniel's Estate

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.