Degman v. Degman’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1952
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.
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.
““It is likewise well settled that the power of appointment must be exercised for the benefit of the parties entitled thereto, and not with a view of benefiting the appointor or donee of the power to appoint, and that an appointment or division made for the purpose of benefiting the appointor is in law fraudulent and void. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chenoweth v. Bullitt““That Mrs. Sweet should desire that her debts be paid and her husband taken care of was natural and commendable, yet she had no power to so apply or use the trust property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chenoweth v. Bullitt
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.