Starnes v. . Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2017
17 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an estate is granted to one for life, and to such of his children as should be living after his death, a present right to future possession vests at once in such as are living, subject to open and let in after-born children, and to be divested as to those who shall die without issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the construction of limitations ought to be made according to the construction of limitations of a legal estate, unless the intent of the testator or author of the trust plainly appears to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. . Cox
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.