Smith v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1950
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 Thielman v. Carr · Lacks v. Lacks
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Decisions and text-writers agree that by the common law a remainder is vested where there is a person in being who has a present capacity to take in remainder, if the particular estate be then presently determined, otherwise the remainder is contingent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunting v. Speek““A remainder is vested in interest where the person is in being and ascertained, who will, if he lives, have an absolute and immediate right to the possession of the land upon the ceasing or failure of all the precedent estates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunting v. Speek
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.