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Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis

1922

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
April 1999
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1999

11 state decisions

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “`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
  3. “... 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.