Cates v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably Wilson v. Carrico (1895), Stroup v. Stroup (1895)
33 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 Spencer v. Robbins · Wall v. Wall · Shackeltow v. Sebree · Owen v. Williams · Robinson v. Schly
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The appellant's contention is that the deed conveyed no interest which became vested upon the execution thereof, but that the exception of `all the estate in said lands,' during the life of the grantor, not only postponed the enjoyment of possession, but denied to the grantees all property rights in said lands until after the death of the grantor, thereby giving the grant a testamentary character. "It is further insisted, by the appellant, that the deed, being of a testamentary character, and not having been attested, and probated as required by the statutes of wills, is of no validity."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Some effective object must be presumed to have been intended by the grantor, and not that the solemn form of a deed was adopted to create a nullity, such as this instrument must be if it possesses a testamentary character. But the deed, in both the grant and exception, should be construed most favorably to the grantee. Darling v. Crowell ( 6 N.H. 421 ); Green Bay, etc., Co. v. Hewitt , 55 Wis. 96 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"`The grantor, Prior Cates, hereby expressly excepts and reserves from this grant all the estate in said lands, and the use and occupation, rents and proceeds thereof unto himself during his natural life.'"”
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.