Archer v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably Harrington v. Cooper (1916), Galloway v. Sewell (1924)
42 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 Giles v. Little · Burleigh v. Clough · Bernstein v. Bramble · Patty v. Goolsby · Warren v. Ingram
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.
““The language is very broad and comprehensive. When the will is read and considered as a whole, we think it is manifest that the power of disposal was not limited to such disposition as a tenant for life can make. To so hold would give no effect whatever to the fourth clause of the will; for the tenant for life had the power of disposition without being granted that power under the will. The fourth clause of the will, in express terms, gives her the power of disposal of the whole of his property. It does not purport to give her any absolute right to .the property, • but only the bare authority to dispose of it. The existence of such a power does not imply ownership, but it does in express terms, give to the life tenant authority to dispose of the property absolutely. By the exercise of the power of the life tenant, she could convey the fee to her grantee. According to the current of authority, the rule is that where a testator gives an estate for life only, with the added power to the life tenant to convey the estate absolutely, the life tenant may defeat the estate of a remainderman under the will by the exercise of the power of disposal during his lifetime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thurman v. Symonds““Fourth. I hereby direct, that my beloved wife, Laura O. L. Archer, shall have full power and authority to sell and dispose of any and all property, both real, personal and mixed in such manner as she may desire of which I may die seized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.