Kelly v. Deegan’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably Wynn v. Tallapoosa County Bank (1910), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Benson Hardware Co. (1931)
27 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 Thompson v. Thompson · Mason v. Pate's · Chaney's Heirs v. Chaney's Adm'r · Williamson v. Mason · Nichols v. Nichols
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.
““The donor intended that on the expiration of the life estate, the entire fee, and no lesser-interest should pass to the remainderman, and this intention it is the duty of the courts to preserve and effectuate and not to defeat.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. York
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.