Becker v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 1985 · most notably Trustees Presbyterian Church v. Mize (1918), Nelson v. Nelson's Exor. (1910)
53 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 Howard v. Carusi · Van Horne v. . Campbell · McCullough's Adm'r v. Anderson · Clay v. Chenault · Moran v. Moran
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to us that the decided weight of authority, if, indeed, there he any to the contrary, is to the effect that a will or deed, giving to the vendee or devisee full power to sell and convey, passes the absolute fee, and that any provision or devise over is absolutely void for the reason that it is inconsistent with or repugnant to the fee, and that it is wholly immaterial whether the power to sell or dispose of the property shall have been exercised or not. This view is not at all in conflict with the law which allows a power of appointment to be vested in one who merely owns a life estate in the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodward v. Anderson
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.