Bryan v. Howland’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 1945
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Mandlebaum v. McDonell · Morgan v. Smith · Golder v. Littlejohn · Curtis v. Root · Andrews v. Boyd
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.
““Undoubtedly the motive in vesting the property thus was to furnish means to aid Henry Allen Howland in supporting and maintaining himself and children. But although the courts have gone to great lengths in holding language expressive of a wish or request sufficient to establish a trust, it has never been held that the mere expression of the motive for a grant, etc., is sufficient to establish a trust. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kirk v. Kirk““But no trust is implied where the words simply state the motive leading to the gift, as, where the gift is to a person to enable him to ‘maintain the children,’ or an absolute gift is made, and the motive stated ‘that he may support himself and children.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kirk v. Kirk
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.