Carlisle v. Delaware Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that where the Will expresses the Decedent’s clear intent and lays out a clear process, there is no ambiguity.
• validity of bequest attempting to create charitable trust

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pruner Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1957-11-18· cited 40×
• duPont v. duPont
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1954-03-01· cited 12×
• Scott v. Kay
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-02-24· cited 9×
• Pollock v. Peterson
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1970-04-16· cited 9×
• Cyrus Q. Stewart, Jr., and William L. Stewart, as Executors of the Will of Mildred L. Stewart, Deceased v. The United States of America
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-04-24· cited 8×
• Johnson v. Estate of Johnson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-06-16· cited 8×
• Wilmington Trust Company v. Huber
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1973-10-19· cited 7×
• Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. v. Preachers' Aid Society of the Methodist Church
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1968-07-31· cited 6×
• Du Pont v. Du Pont
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1954-03-01· cited 5×
• In Re Alice duPont Buck Trust
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1971-04-21· cited 2×
• IMO: Raymond L. Hammond Irrevocable Trust Agreement, dtd 10.5.2007
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2016-01-28
• In re the Will Ashbrook
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1972-05-10
• IMO the Estate of Robert W. Pedigo, IV
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2024-08-01

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bird v. Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1945-05-28· cited 58×
• Hutton v. . Benkard
  New York Court of Appeals· 1883-04-24· cited 41×
• Wilmington Trust Co. v. Copeland
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1953-02-05· cited 23×
• Lane v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1903-06-16· cited 22×
• Miller v. Equitable Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1943-04-28· cited 14×
• Wilmington Trust Co v. Grier
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1932-07-27· cited 11×
• Equitable Trust Co. v. Paschall
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1921-11-23· cited 10×
• Grant v. Mullen
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1926-05-12· cited 8×
• Trustees of the New Castle Common v. Gordy
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-09-04· cited 4×
• Equitable Trust Co. v. Causey
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1939-12-12· cited 4×
• Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church v. Williams
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1914-10-30· cited 3×
• Security Trust Co. v. Crumlish
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1936-06-04· cited 3×
• Delaware Trust Co. v. Delaware Trust Co.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1953-03-19· cited 2×