Cann v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1976
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 In Re Boyle's Estate
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.
““Hence the instant case is controlled, by the ruling in the Feeney case, supra. Where the phrase ends with, ‘ “her heirs * * * and assigns forever” ’, the court substitutes ‘and’ in place of the previous comma; thus creating words of limitation. But when the phrase ends with, ‘her heirs or assigns forever/ the court substitutes ‘or’ in place of the previous comma, thus creating words of substitution, for, as the author said in the Feeney case, supra, if the word ‘or’ has been used, it would be considered ‘a word of substitution’.””
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.