Clarkson v. Clarkson’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1975
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... no charges or conditions can be imposed by the testator on the legitimate portion of forced heirs ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the disposition made by donation inter vivos or mortis causa be of a usufruct, or of an annuity, the value of which exceeds the disposable portion, the forced heirs have the option either to execute the disposition or to abandon to the donee the ownership of such portion of the estate as the donor had a right to dispose of.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the law intended to cast upon the forced heir a certain part of the succession in full property, and that, to allow a testator to bequeath to a stranger an usufruct for life of his whole estate (when he has forced heirs), would be to impair the legitime reserved to such heirs of right.”
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.