Minderman v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2024
19 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 Collins v. Collins · Merchants Nat. Bank of Mobile v. Cotnam · Potter v. Bland · Wigley v. Whitten · Berman v. Thomas
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The substance of the thing agreed upon is the transfer of property to the promisee at the death of the promisor. The remedy granted by the court seeks either to accomplish that result or to award damages for its failure. The fact that a will was the vehicle through which it was contemplated that the desired result would be achieved is merely incidental.’ ””
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.