Ridley v. Halliday’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1997
18 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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.
““It has been held by a large majority of tbe courts, both English and American, that in certain cases the life tenant will represent contingent remaindermen, where no one of the latter is in esse at the time the court is called upon to intervene with regard to the estate in controversy. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Before concluding, it is proper to say that, upon the authorities, it is immaterial whether in such a case the hill is brought by or against the tenant for life.” (Citing authorities.)”
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.