Evans v. Folks’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1932
14 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 Reinders v. Koppelmann · Jackson v. Sebring · Lewis v. Pitman · Green v. Sutton · Rubey v. Barnett
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ However, as he gave to her a life estate by express words, with a power of disposition, which the law holds to be a mere power, which was not executed during the lifetime of Mrs. Evans by a conveyance of the property under the seventh clause of the will, on her death it passed to the heirs of Nathan Evans and Stacy Evans, youngest son of William Evans, or those of them who were then living. She could not execute the power by will in the absence of a fee-simple title in her, or authority expressly conferred by the will of her husband; hence no title passed to Mary Morgan under the will of Mrs. Houts, nor by the deed of Mary Morgan to the defendant Mrs. Folks.” [See, also, Burnet v. Burnet, 244 Mo. 491 , 148 S. W. 872 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van Every v. McKay
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.