Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1999
11 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 United States v. Pacific Railroad · Currence v. Ward · Gibson v. Herriott · Depue v. Miller · Andrews v. Tuttle-Smith Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although no time for resale was agreed upon, the law would not permit defendant to prevent a fruition of the contract by indefinite and eternal postponement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The rule against perpetuities has reference to the time within which the title vests, and has nothing to do with the postponement of the enjoyment.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... direct or express trusts, so long as they continue as between trustee and the beneficiary, are not subject to the statute of limitations ...”
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.