Brown v. Condit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * A court of equity, under limitations which I need not discuss, will carry out the expressed general charitable purpose of the donor by the use of means other than those specified by the donor when such specified means have become impracticable or impossible of use. But in all such cases there is a general or comprehensive charitable purpose expressly set forth in the will or inferable from its provisions, beyond which the court will not go in its substitution of a practicable for an impracticable means. The court is acting within the donor's charitable purpose, and not beyond it or alongside of it or next to it.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 23 N.J. Super. 170 - Bankers Trust Co. v. NY, Etc., Animals · 11 N.J. Super. 165 - Mirinda v. King

2. “the conditions existing at the time of the testator's death make the actual charitable purpose of the testator impossible of accomplishment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 18 N.J. Super. 314 - Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Ackerman

3. “to the Hospital Fund for Sick Seamen at Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, care of Mr. John M. Wood, chaplain.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 18 N.J. Super. 314 - Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Ackerman