Lee v. . Tower’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1958 · most notably Utermehle v. Norment (1905), Becker v. Chester (1902)
1 district · 24 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 Chamberlain v. . Chamberlain · Brown v. . Knapp
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one can be allowed to disappoint a will under which a benefit is accepted, but, on the contrary, must concede full effect to the dispositions thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. Strong
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.