Schehr v. Look’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1920
6 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 Sutphen v. Ellis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ In the present case, however, it is evident, from the language employed, that the estate bequeathed to the wife is intended to be limited to the use, and after her death the whole body of the estate is to become vested in the children. Whether or not the testator intended to vest .any estate in the executors, or only to give them power of disposition, does not become important. The execution of the trust failed by the resignation of the executors before any portion of the estate had been disposed of or any distribution made. The estate is now in the hands of the administrator, and, upon proper application, undoubtedly a ■court of chancery would have power to appoint the necessary trustee for the control and management of the estate, and to pay the income over to the widow.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Look v. Durfee
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.