Crain v. . Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably Lang v. Smith (1893), Weston v. Second Orthodox Congregational Society (1915)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Terry v. . Wiggins · Campbell v. . Beaumont · Henderson v. Blackburn · Paine v. Barnes
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Henderson v. Blackburn, 104 Ill. 227 , and Paine v. Barnes, 100 Mass. 470 , cited by the learned counsel for the appellant, there was an express limitation of the gift by the use of the words ‘during her lifetime,’ .in the former, and ‘during her natural life,’ in the latter. In the absence of such' express terms, and when the effort to qualify the estate depends wholly upon necessary implication, a strong and clear case is required to satisfy the statute. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swarthout v. Ranier
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.