Daboll v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1993
18 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 Dennis v. Dennis · Gould v. Gould · Wolfe v. Hatheway · Coe v. Hill · Born v. Horstmann
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To condition a gift upon the doing of what the State treats by its legislation as promotive of the public interest and its own prosperity, or what it requires to be done in the interest of the public health, cannot be against public policy. To make the condition void as against public policy, it must appear from the language of the will alone, or in connection with extrinsic facts, that the testator in the particular case in question conditioned his gift upon an illegal divorce or separation. . . . [Citations omitted.] Where it is possible that the condition may be legally performed, it will not be presumed that the testator intended an illegal performance. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Upon the death of the present wife of said Willard B. Moon, or if he shall obtain a divorce from her or shall become separated from her, at the end of a year from said divorce or separation, or if within said year he shall become married to a good, respectable woman, then in either of said events the said Willard B. Moon shall be entitled to and shall receive the income and property from said trust fund. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because it believes that the interest of society will thereby be better served and that its own prosperity will thereby be promoted.”
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.