Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 303 · 1877
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 16 district · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Bob Jones University v. United States (1983), Phillips v. Negley (1886)
55 federal appellate · 16 district · 132 state decisions — followed in 37 states
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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · John Inglis v. The Trustees of the Sailor's Snug Harbour in the City of New York · Stanley v. Colt
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A eharitablo use, where neither law nor public policy forbids], may be applied to almost anything that tends to promote the well-doing and well being of social men.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Charitable uses are favorites with courts of equity. The construction of all instruments where they are concerned is liberal in their behalf. Mills v. Farmer, 19 Ves. 487; McGill v. Brown, supra [Brightly, N. P. (Pa.) 346, note]; Perry on Trusts, § 709. Even the stern rule against perpetuities is relaxed for their benefit.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A devise to a corporation to be created by the legislature is good as an executory devise. A distinction is taken between a devise in praesenti to one incapable, and a devise in futuro to an artificial being, to be created and enabled to take. Angell & Ames on Corp., sec. 184; Porter's Case, 1 Co. 24; Attorney General v. Bonyer, 3 Ves. 714; Inglis v. The Trustees of the Sailor's Snug Harbor, 3 Pet. 99 [ 7 L.Ed. 617 ]; Sanderson v. White, 18 Pick. (Mass.) 328. "At common law, lands may be granted to pious uses before there is a grantee competent to take. In the meantime, the fee will lie in abeyance. It will vest when the grantee exists. Town of Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch. [(13 U.S.)] 292, [ 3 L.Ed. 735 ]. See also, Beatty v. Kurtz, 2 Pet. [(27 U.S.)] [566], [ 7 L.Ed. 521 ] and Vincennes University v. Indiana, 14 How. [(55 U.S.)] 268, [ 14 L.Ed. 416 ]. "Charitable uses are favorites with courts of equity. The construction of all instruments where they are concerned is liberal in their behalf. Mills v. Farmer, 19 Ves. 487, McGill [Magill] v. Brown [Pa.Bright 347], supra; Perry on Trusts, sect. 709. Even the stern rule against perpetuities is relaxed for their benefit."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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