UNION METHODIST EPISCOPAL CH. v. Equitable Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1984
4 federal appellate · 7 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 duPont v. Mills · 14 Del. Ch. 457 - Murphy v. McBride · Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. v. Williams · 24 Del. Ch. 300 - Cann v. Van Sant · Doughten v. Vandever
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If property is given in trust to be applied to a particular charitable purpose, and it is or becomes impossible or impracticable or illegal to carry out the particular purpose, and if the settlor manifested a more general intention to devote the property to charitable purposes, the trust will not fail but the Court will direct the application of the property to some charitable purpose which falls within the general charitable intention of the settlor."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * If application for admission to the various Homes herein named should cease for any one year, I direct that one hundred dollars be paid into the `poor funds' of each of the two churches * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * *. The remaining one third of the net income I direct shall be paid to the Trustees of the Home for Friendless and Destitute Children * * *”
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.