Cooke v. . Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 1959 · most notably In Re the Estate of Fair (1901), Chamberlain v. . Taylor (1887)
45 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 Mott v. . Ackerman · Leggett v. . Hunter · Heermans v. . Burt
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The main purpose of the testator was to give his estate, remaining after .payment of his debts, equally to his four children. He imposed upon his ■executors the duty of making the division, and this was the declared purpose of the trust If there was nothing further in the will, there could be no question. The statute does not authorize the creation of a trust for the partition of lands. But a power may be created for this purpose, and the devise to the executors, though void as a trust, may be valid as a power to -divide and distribute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Paret
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.