Levings v. Danforth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Thatcher v. St. Louis · First Portland National Bank v. Kaler-Vaill Memorial Home · Herrick Motor Co. v. Fischer Oldsmobile Co. · Ramsey v. City of Brookfield
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If property is given in trust to be applied to a particular charitable purpose, and it is or becomes impossible or impracticable or illegal to carry out the particular purpose, and if the settlor manifested a more general intention to devote the property to charitable purposes, the trust will not fail but the court will direct the application of the property to some charitable purpose which falls within the general charitable intention of the settlor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.