Berry v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1957
10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be observed that in order to make a sale under this provision it is necessary that the-estate should be in possession, and we have uniformly held that a remainder interest is not property in possession, within the meaning of this subsection. Swearingen v. Abbott and others, 99 Ky. 271 , 35 S. W. 925 [ 18 Ky. Law Rep. 184 ]; Malone v. Conn, etc., 95 Ky. 93 , 23 S. W. 677 [ 15 Ky. Law Rep. 421 ]; and Dineen v. Hall [ 112 Ky. 273 ] 65 S. W. 445 , 66 S. W. 392 , 23 Ky. Law Rep. 1615 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitney v. Dorsey
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.