Cook v. Councilman’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2010
12 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 Lurman v. Hubner · Brown v. Renshaw · Simpers v. Simpers · Stump v. Jordan · Campbell v. Morris
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Shapley v. Diehl, 203 Pa. St. 568, land was conveyed `to Shapley for the term of his natural life and at his death to his children or heirs.' The Court in that case held that the phrase `children or heirs' means `heirs of the grantee of the life estate,' the word `heirs' being used as a synonym to enlarge and explain the preceding word, which might otherwise fail of its real intendment. The words, therefore, naturally and properly seem to express the intent that the donees in remainder should take not from the donor directly as purchasers, but in succession by inheritance from the grantee of the life estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Gradwohl
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.