Banta v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1965
6 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 People v. Jennings
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also apparent from the will that the testator did not intend to devise to said parties directly any portion of his real or personal property, but all of his real and personal property was intended to be placed, and was placed, in the hands of his executors, to be by them converted into money, and the proceeds distributed among the legatees named in the will. It was not the property itself which was devised, but the proceeds. Under such circumstances, did Spencer Boyd take a vested interest upon the death of the testator? We think not. On the other hand, we think it is plain that the date of distribution was the time provided when the parties should take.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ahrens v. Ahrens“in manner and on such terms as they may deem best,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.