Bingham's Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1967 · most notably Wolfe v. Lewisburg Trust & Safe Deposit Co. (1931), People v. Kaiser (1922)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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.
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Garwood · White v. Hicks
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is possible, but not certain, that he intended an execution of the power ... In the donee it is but a trust, and those interested in the estate of William Bingham have a right to know that the will of their testator has been actually executed as he intended by the donee of his power. Hence, they are entitled to certainties, not mere conjectures or possibilities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Mackie
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.