Papst v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Hester v. Sawyers (1937), 35 Cal. 3d 564 - Warsaw v. Chicago Metallic Ceilings, Inc. (1984)
71 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Parsons v. Smilie · Liebrand v. Otto
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““upon the conditions, however, that the premises shall be used solely for the purpose of erecting, furnishing, keeping, and maintaining thereon an academic or collegiate school for the purpose of educating the young people and students in the higher as well as more common and useful branches of education, and for a residence or residences thereon for the professors or teachers, and students of the said institution while engaged in their duties therein, and for no other purpose whatever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * that for more than five years last past the said grantees in the said deed, or their successors have failed and neglected to use the premises described in the said deed for the purpose or any of the purposes above specified as a consideration for the said deed, and have entirely abandoned the said premises * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and where this is the case, a clause of re-entry is unnecessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forsgren v. Sollie
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.