Gregg v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Marks v. City of Tucumcari (1979), Aboud v. Adams (1973)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 84 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 Burleigh Estate · Dinkey Estate · Wanamaker Estate · Hope Estate · Pruner Estate
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining the testator's intention, the true purpose of the inquiry is to ascertain not what he meant to express apart from the language used, but what the words he has used do express.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"where one of many parties having a common interest in a trust fund, at his own expense takes proper proceedings to save it from distribution and to restore it to the purposes of the trust, he is entitled to reimbursement, either out of the fund itself, or by proportional contribution from those who accept the benefits of his efforts."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is equally clear from our decisions that in equity a contract for sale of real estate results in the purchaser acquiring an equitable interest in the land which he may devise by will, and in case of intestacy the same passes to his heirs and not to his administrator. Whereas, legal title remains in the vendor, it is held in trust as security. * * * It must follow that when testatrix entered into contracts to sell certain of her real estate, the equitable interest in the land passed to the purchasers although legal title .remained in her. Through the doctrine of equitable conversion, her interest is considered as personalty.”
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.