Bible Society v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1964
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Brooke v. Shacklett · Seaburn's Ex'or v. Seaburn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•The will directs the payment of certain legacies, and simply designates the proceeds of this land as a fund or portion of the personal estate out of which they should be paid. Most manifestly, therefore, the laws of Pennsylvania can have no operation and can have no influence in construing the language of this will, or determining the validity of any of its dispositions touching this fund. They can no more control or determine the direction of this fund than they can control and direct the movements of a stream whose source, indeed, may be within the limits of that state, when it comes to flow exclusively within the limits of Virginia.””
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.