Hiserodt v. Hamlett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A completely constituted parol trust of personality is not ambulatory at all, as to the present vesting of interest —subject to revocation, or not so subject. It is vitalized by what is done then, at the time of its constitution by the donor, and is as effectual thenceforward, even when subject to revocation, until duly revoked, as any other disposition of property, and to be administered according to the legal character stamped upon it at the time of its creation. One may do what he will, within legal limits, with his own. He may declare a trust absolute, never thereafter having, in any wise, the right to interfere with it, or he may declare a trust revocable upon a named contingency.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ladner v. Ladner