Martin v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Gumen v. State (1971), Carlson v. Lindauer (1953)
30 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
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 4305
Relies on Clark v. Allen · Terlinden v. Ames · Karnuth v. United States ex rel. Albro · The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. The Town of New-Haven and William Wheeler · Techt v. . Hughes
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he estate which vests in them upon the death of the ancestor is not an absolute or unconditional estate, as in the case of citizen heirs, subject only to be divested in the process of administration, but it is a conditional estate, upon the condition subsequent that if they fail to appear and claim the same within five years their right ceases and the property then vests in the state.”
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.