Enos v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Pettigrew v. Pettigrew (1904), Deyoe v. Superior Court (1903)
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Larson v. Chase · Renihan v. Wright · O'Donnell v. Slack · Guthrie v. Weaver · Griffith v. Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta R. R.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of statutory provisions, there is no property in a dead body, that it is not part of the estate of the deceased person, and that a man cannot by will dispose of that which after his death will be his corpse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did the respondents, as next of kin, have the right to the possession of the body of the deceased for the purpose of burying it, as against the appellants, who claim that right under the will?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`according to the wishes and directions of Mrs. R.J. Snyder,'”
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.