115 Ind. App. 160 - Schofield v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1993
5 federal appellate · 13 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. McCorkle · Clark v. Middlesworth · Green v. McGrew · 88 Ind. App. 204 - Hackleman v. Hackleman · Stephens v. Evans' Administratrix
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a matter between him and the remaindermen, and it [is] incumbent upon them, if they [wish] to protect their expectant interest, to see to it that the life tenant [pays] them, or, failing that, to pay the taxes themselves, or in a proper case recover the property . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The language of the will is not ambiguous. It created a contingent remainder in those of the life tenant’s children who would be living at the time of the latter’s death.” (our italics)”
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.