Richter v. Richter’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 1955 · most notably First Nat. Bank v. McIntosh (1918), Glocke v. Glocke (1902)
46 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Lindsey v. Lindsey · Stilwell v. Knapper · Leach v. Leach · Hubbard v. Hubbard · Wilson v. Wilson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If from the nature of the acts to be performed by the grantee, and the time required for their performance, it is evidently the intention of the parties that the estate shall be held and enjoyed on condition that the grantee perform the acts specified, then the estate is upon condition. This is especially so when the grantor has reserved no other effectual remedy for the enforcement of the performance on the part of the grantee. In such case a condition subsequent arises by clear implication. 2 Washburn Real Prop. 7.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodley v. Woodley
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.