Caples v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably Edds v. Mitchell, Admr. (1945), Murphy v. Slaton (1954)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 115 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.
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A remainder is vested where there is a person in being who would have an immediate right to the possession upon the termination of the intermediate estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“termination of the life estate in her hereby created,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tipton v. Tipton
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.