Amy v. Amy’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986
2 federal appellate · 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Bute v. People of State of Illinois · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Thompson v. Whitman · Grignon's Lessee v. Astor
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Kindred of the half blood inherit equally with those of the whole blood in the same degree, unless the inheritance come to the intestate by descent, devise, or gift of some one of his ancestors, in which case all those who are not of the blood of such ancestors must be excluded from such inheritance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Belshaw“The word 'ancestor' as used in this connection is construed to mean the last possessor before the decedent; that is the person from whom the land immediately descends to the decedent.”
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.