Woodgate v. . Fleet’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1944
19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trust to receive and apply the rents and profits of lands, the duration of which cannot extend beyond the lives of two designated persons in being at the time of the creation of the trust, is permitted by the statute; and its validity is not impaired by the circumstance that during this authorized period of suspension of the power of alienation, more than two persons are to enjoy the benefit of the income, or even that some of the designated beneficiaries are not in esse at the time of the creation of the trust.”
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.