Ison v. Halcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1966 · most notably Siter v. Hall (1927), Payne v. Edwards (1920)
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.
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.
““The operation of the deed is wholly contingent upon his having the property at his death. It therefore passed at its delivery no interest in any property he then owned, and would be operative in no way until his death. It was therefore testamentary in character, and of no validity unless probated as a will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vaughn v. Metcalf
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.