Dado v. Maguire’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1956
5 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 40 N.J. Eq. 73 - Randolph v. Randolph
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sole question presented for decision by this record is whether a legatee, on attaining his majority, who has a vested interest in a fund, the payment of which is postponed by the will devising the fund to a period beyond his majority, may,' notwithstanding such postponement, obtain an order for its payment on attaining the age of twenty-one years. In such circumstances it is conceded that where the gift is absoluté, as in this case, the legatee may sell or mortgage bis interest on attaining twenty-one years of age. For this reason it has been held both in this country and in England that he is entitled to an order for the payment of the fund when he is twenty-one years of age and that the court will not subject him to the disadvantage of raising money by means of a sale or mortgage when the fund or thing is absolutely his own. ’ ’”
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.