Steelman v. Wheaton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An annuity is a stated sum per annum, payable annually unless otherwise directed. It is not income or profits, nor indeterminate in amount, varying according to the income or profits, though a certain sum may be provided out of which it is to be payable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Paterson National Bank v. Mosher · 90 N.J. Super. 91 - In Re Estate of Birkner

2. “I hereby instruct, authorize and empower my executor hereinafter named, as soon as it is convenient after my decease, to invest a sufficient sum or sums of money of my estate., with good and- sufficient security, approved by the orphans’ court of the county in which this will is probated, which will bear twelve hundred ($1200.00) dollars interest annually; and this sum of twelve hundred ($1200.00) dollars I give and bequeath to my wife Arabella Wheaton, during her natural life, and if she again does not marry; which sum of twelve hundred ($1200.00) dollars, is to be paid annually to my said wife, by my executor, in payments quarterly of three hundred ($300.00) dollars each, and upon her decease or upon her again marrying, or upon my decease, if I should survive my said wife, I give and bequeath the sum or sums of money which my executor is authorized to invest for the use of my wife, to my daughter, May Steelman, if she be living.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crosby v. Commissioner