Wiley v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1954 · most notably Mulvane v. Rude (1896), Ernst v. Foster (1897)
27 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 Burleigh v. Clough · Jackson v. Sebring · Wood v. Robertson · Clark v. Middlesworth · VanGorder v. Smith
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an estate be given to a person generally or indefinitely, with a qiower of disposition, it carries a fee, unless the testator gives to the first "taker an estate for life only, and annexes to it a power of disposition of the reversion. In that case the express limitation for life will control the operation of the power and prevent it from enlarging the estate to a ±ee.” (p. 652.)”
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.