Barnitz's Lessee v. Robert Casey’s Empirical Analysis
11 U.S. 456 · 1813
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1948 · most notably Crawford v. Carlisle (1921), Copenhaver v. Pendleton (1930)
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Preston v. Tremble
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the next place it will be necessary to consider what is the nature of an executory devise as to its transmissibility to heirs, where the devisee dies before the happening of the contingency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell v. Pearson
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.