Emmerson v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1960 · most notably Godman v. Simmons (1892), Kennard v. Wiggins (1941)
4 federal appellate · 20 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 Rodney v. Landau · Chiles v. Bartleson · Phillips ex rel. Guardan v. Forge · Riggins v. McClellan · Tesson v. Newman
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a remainder shall be limited to the heirs, or heirs of the body, of a person to whom a life estate in the same premises shall be given, the persons who, on the termination of the life estate, shall he the heirs, or heirs of ihe body of such lenant for life, shall be entitled to take, as pur chasers, by virtue of the remainder so limited in them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold v. Garth
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.