Benedict v. . Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1960 · most notably Brown v. . Quintard (1903), Underwood v. . Curtis (1891)
35 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 Savage v. . Burnham · Post v. . Hover
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We should feel disposed to sustain the trusts in favor of the other children, except for the reason that to uphold those, while setting aside the trust in favor of Anna Augusta, would seriously interfere with the intention of the testator that all the children and their issue should share equally in his estate, and would produce great injustice. The result of sustaining the trusts in favor of the other children would be that each would take one-fourth share of the estate, and. also, as heirs and distributees, an equal share with Anna Augusta in the share intended for her. No case, we think, can be found, which would justify upholding a part of a will, when by so doing it would produce such manifest injustice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brandt v. Brandt
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.