Dodge v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 73 state decisions

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

1. ““When a will contains a power of sale, not in mandatory terms, but it is apparent, from the general scope and tenor of the will, that the testator intended all his realty to be sold, the power of sale will be held imperative, and the doctrine of equitable conversion applied.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Becker v. Chester · Citizens' Nat. Bank v. First Nat. Bank

2. ““The English doctrine of perpetuities applied to estates both real and personal, and grew up by a series of judicial decisions. Perry on Trusts, secs. 377, 379. It appears to have been applied to private trusts, but not to trusts for charitable uses, which usually are essentially and indefinitely permanent. Perry, secs. 384, 687, 736;””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Danforth v. City of Oshkosh

3. ““The statute limiting the rule against perpetuities to realty, manifestly abrogates the English doctrine as applicable to personalty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Becker v. Chester