Steinway v. . Steinway’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 1957 · most notably Fulton Trust Co. v. . Phillips (1916), In Re the Accounting of Evans (1922)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSteinway v. Steinway
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. . Edwards · Warner v. . Durant · Goebel v. . Wolf · Robert v. . Corning · Savage v. . Burnham
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The absolute ownership of personal property shall not be suspended by any limitation or condition, for a longer period than during the continuance and until the termination of not more than two lives in being at the date of the instrument containing such limitation or condition. * * * In other respects limitations of future or contingent interests in personal property, are,subject to the'rules prescribed in relation to future estates in real property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“upon it was. to be paid to- the legatee, and, therefore, since the testator intended that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.